BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Refresh Web Development//Helios Calendar//EN X-FROM-URL:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/ X-WR-RELCALID:Berkeleyside X-WR-CALNAME:Berkeleyside X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1608 DTSTART:20120222T110000 DTEND:20120222T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1799 DTSTART:20120222T151000 DTEND:20120222T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1905 DTSTART:20120222T200000 DTEND:20120222T223000 SUMMARY:Roland White & the Bluegrass All-Stars DESCRIPTION:legendary mandolinist's hot bluegrass band\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2004 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120223 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2065 DTSTART:20120222T183000 DTEND:20120222T210000 SUMMARY:Coming of Age on The Page: Writing for Young Adults DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Laura GoodeContact: laura.goode@gmail.comNumber of sessions: 8Meeting time: Wednesday nights\, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmDates: Feb. 1 - March 21Course fee: $425\, with $100 to secure a spot in the classDescription: The 2000s may well be regarded as young adult literature’s golden age\, with YA sales surpassing all other literary genres and YA subject matter veering increasingly into the risky and new. This eight-week course will serve as a primer on how to write your first (or next) novel for young adults. We’ll examine many of the questions faced by all fictioneers\, such as how to plot\, pace\, structure\, and populate an engrossing novel\, and interrogate others more particular to YA: What makes a story starring a teenager different from a book composed for teenagers? How does an author make a YA novel accessible to young readers without dumbing it down? What is the responsibility of the YA author in distinguishing between the issues young readers need to see reflected on the page\, and issues they’re not ready to handle? What role does gender play in the YA market? Why and in what ways can young adult literature appeal to both teens and adults?Week by week\, we’ll first work to build a tight synopsis of your story\, and then move into workshopping individual chapters and discussing how to sell your novel. Writers need not be published\, nor is there any prerequisite for the class apart from a passion for providing young people with great literature. Bring a story idea and the title of your favorite YA novel to the first class.Instructor Bio: Laura Goode’s debut novel for young adults\, Sister Mischief\, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011. Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, The Rumpus\, The Faster Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The New Inquiry\, Dossier\, Slope\, and other publications. Visit her website at www.lauragoode.com.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:San Francisco Writers' Grotto - 490 2nd St 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA United States 94107 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2076 DTSTART:20120222T193000 DTEND:20120222T210000 SUMMARY:Meredith Maran & Terry McMillan: A Conversation About A Theory of Small Earthquakes DESCRIPTION:In her ten previous nonfiction books\, Meredith Maran has trained her journalistic eye on the subtle dance between the political and the personal. Now Maran brings her provocative gaze to her debut novel -- a very Berkeley family story spanning two decades\, set against the social\, political\, and geological upheavals of the Bay Area. Eager to escape her damaging past and chart her own future\, Alison Rose is powerfully drawn to Zoe\, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability and a love outside the norm. After many happy years together\, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake deepens fissures in the two women’s relationship\, and Alison leaves Zoe for a new\, “normal” life with a man. Alison’s son is the outcome of both of these complicated relationships\, and the three parents strive to create a life together that will test the boundaries of love and family in changing times.   “A smart\, sexy\, funny\, wrenching\, delicious story of lust and trust and love and family." -- Anne Lamott\, author of Imperfect Birds and Bird by Bird “A Theory Of Small Earthquakes teaches us something new about love and sex\, jealousy and loyalty\, and also\, and perhaps most importantly\, motherhood. Meredith Maran’s first novel is a powerful debut that left me waiting impatiently for her second.” -- Ayelet Waldman\, author of Red Hook Road and Bad Mother "Funny\, lively\, political\, personal\, nostalgic\, touching\, A Theory of Small Earthquakes deftly chronicles love and its various meanings. I enjoyed it greatly." -- Meg Wolitzer\, author of The Uncoupling and The Ten-Year Nap “In this groundbreaking novel\, Meredith Maran has told a story few writers\, if any\, have explored:  of a woman drawn to two lovers and two distinct worlds\, and of the unlikely family she creates\, with two extraordinarily different partners\, each of whom speaks to a different aspect of her desire. With rare honesty and courage\, Maran asks us to consider whether sexuality can be defined by preference for one gender or the other\, or if it is shifting and sometimes stormy as the tides.” -- Joyce Maynard\, author of The Good Daughters and At Home in the World “Meredith Maran has a keen eye for the universal truths of the human condition that transcends all boundaries\, whether gender or sexual\, and plots a story that will have the reader eager to turn the pages to find out how Alison Rose chooses to live her life..” -- Lalita Tademy\, author of the Oprah’s Book Club selection Cane River Meredith Maran is the award-winning Oakland author of several nonfiction books including My Lie\, Class Dismissed\, and What It’s Like to Live Now. She reviews books and writes for magazines and newspapers including People\, Salon\, More\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Boston Globe. A member of the National Book Critics Circle\, she's the mother of two grown sons and new grandmother of one rapidly growing grandson. A Theory of Small Earthquakes\, just out now from Berkeley publisher Counterpoint Press\,  is her first novel.   Terry McMillan was introduced to literature while shelving books at the Port Huron (Michigan) library. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, she is the author of Mama\, Waiting to Exhale (a Doubleday New Voices in Fiction award-winner and the basis of the wildly successful and multiple award-winning film of the same name)\; How Stella Got Her Groove Back\, A Day Late and a Dollar Short\, The Interruption of Everything\, It’s Okay If You’re Clueless and 23 More Tips for the College Bound\, and the most recent Getting to Happy\, the sequel to Waiting to Exhale.   Presented by Berkeley Arts & LettersWednesday\, February 22 at the Hillside Club (2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley) reception 6:30 ��" 7:15 PM\; general seating from 7:15 PM   Tickets:   The Big One -- $25\, includes wine/nibbles reception 6:30 ��" 7:15 PM with Maran and McMillan\, seat\, and one signed copy of A Theory of Small Earthquakes   The Tremor -- $15\, general seating at 7:15 PM   Available at Brown Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hillside Club - 2286 Cedar Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2184 DTSTART:20120222T133000 DTEND:20120222T150000 SUMMARY:The Path to Prison Reform: Freeing Jails from Racism DESCRIPTION:The Path to Prison Reform:  Freeing Jails from Racismis the topic for the Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthersmeeting.  Speakers are former prisoners and from the ACLU and. Free. All Welcome\, Wheelchair accessible. Wednesday\, Feb. 22nd at 1:30 North Berkeley Senior Center 1901 Hearst\, corner of MLK\, Berkeley\, CA CONTACT: Margot Smith Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers 2539 Telegraph Ave.\, Ste B Berkeley\, CA 94704 510-548-9696 510-486-8010 GrayPanthersBerk@aol.com \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers - 1901 Hearst \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2314 DTSTART:20120222T120000 DTEND:20120222T120000 SUMMARY:Berkeley City College hosts Black History Month Events DESCRIPTION:A series of lectures\, art shows\, poetry readings and performances are planned for Berkeley City College’s 2012 Black History Month celebration.  Events\, free and open to the public\, are:Wed.\, Feb. 15•  Noon-12:45 p.m.\, Deborah Ale Flint\, BCC Black History Month Presentation\, Rm. 431•  12:30-2 p.m.\, Poetry\, Speakers\, African      American Historical Displays\,  Ethopian Food Fest\,  BCC AtriumWed.\, Feb. 22•  Noon-2 p.m.\, Hip-Hop Culture with Live Band  by Mr. Jahi\, a BCC Black History Month Eventwith Graffitti Art Display and Jamaican Food Fest\, Atrium Wed.\, Feb. 29•  Noon-12:45 p.m.\, Presentations by attorney Dee Dee Abdur Rahim\, founder of Culture with a Cause and by Dr. Nyeshia Dewitt\, Manager of Oakland’s Promise Alliance and 2011 Jefferson Service Award Winner\,  Rm. 431•  Noon-2 p.m.\, Motown Day and Soul Food Fest\,  AtriumBerkeley City College is located at 2050 Center St.\, between Shattuck and Milvia Sts.  It is accessible via the Richmond BART train and by AC Transit.Shirley FogarinoPublic Information OfficerBerkeley City College(510) 981-2852\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley City College - 2050 Center Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2344 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120223 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1609 DTSTART:20120223T110000 DTEND:20120223T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1906 DTSTART:20120223T200000 DTEND:20120223T223000 SUMMARY:Patrick Landeza DESCRIPTION:Hawaiian slack key guitar & vocals\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2005 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120224 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2081 DTSTART:20120223T173000 DTEND:20120223T193000 SUMMARY:2012: a Turning Point? And If So\, Which Way?: A Talk by Robert Reich DESCRIPTION:Please join the UC Berkeley campus for the 3rd annual Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics and Public Policy featuring Robert Reich.  A reception will be help prior to the presentation 5:30-6pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:East Pauley Ballroom\, MLK Student Union\, on campus - 2475 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2084 DTSTART:20120223T190000 DTEND:20120223T203000 SUMMARY:Muir Ramble Route: San Francisco to Yosemite DESCRIPTION:In April 1868\, only days after arriving in San Francisco by steamship\, John Muir set out on a six-week-long walk across California to Yosemite. Inspired by Muir’s 300-mile journey\, book artists Peter and Donna Thomas walked his route as closely as possible -- 138 years later. Join Peter and Donna for a digital presentation of their 2006 ramble across California\, which led to their creation of the Muir Ramble Route (MRR) from San Francisco to Yosemite over Pacheco Pass. Peter and Donna will show you some of the unique landmarks of this cross-California route\, designed for urban backpackers/cyclists to discover still-wild places in the greater Bay Area and beyond. As they share highlights from their new book\, “Muir Ramble Route: Walking from San Francisco to Yosemite in the Footsteps of John Muir”\, they will also tell the story of their reconstruction of Muir’s first trip to Yosemite from his various writings\, which they present in entirety and in a first-ever published account in a section of their book. If you register for this free presentation at www.rei.com/berkeley\, we will hold a seat for you until the scheduled start time.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:REI Berkeley - 1338 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2151 DTSTART:20120223T193000 DTEND:20120223T193000 SUMMARY:Maxine Hong Kingston reads from 'I Love a Broad Margin in My Life' DESCRIPTION:In her singular voice -- both humble and brave\, touching and humorous -- Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years\, she circles from present to past and back\, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran\, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer\, peace activist\, teacher\, and mother\, she revisits her most beloved characters -- Wittman Ah-Sing\, the Tripmaster Monkey\, and Fa Mook Lan\, the Woman Warrior -- and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy\, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.Just released in paperback (Vintage\, $15).\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - \, \, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2156 DTSTART:20120223T193000 DTEND:20120223T213000 SUMMARY:Michio Kaku: Physics of the Future\, How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 DESCRIPTION: “With his lucid and wry style\, his knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth\, and his willingness to indulge in a little scientifically informed futurology now and then …Michio Kaku has written one of the very best accounts of higher physics.” Wall Street Journal In Physics of the Future\, Michio Kaku -- The New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible -- gives us a stunning\, provocative\, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists\, who are already inventing the future in their labs. The result is the most authoritative and scientifically accurate description of the revolutionary developments taking place in medicine\, computers\, artificial intelligence\, nanotechnology\, energy production\, and astronautics. “Mesmerizing…the reader exits dizzy\, elated\, and looking at the world in a literally revolutionary way.” Washington Post Book World Kaku also discusses emotional robots\, molecular medicine in which scientists will be able to grow almost every organ of the body and cure genetic diseases\, antimatter rockets\, X-ray vision\, and the ability to create new life forms. He considers the development of the world economy and addresses key questions: Who will be the winners and losers of the future? Which nations will prosper? Synthesizing a vast amount of information to construct an exciting look at the years leading up to 2100\, Physics of the Future is a thrilling\, wondrous ride through the next 100 years of astonishing scientific revolution. Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the CUNY Graduate Center\, cofounder of string field theory\, author of several widely acclaimed science books\, and has a Science Channel show and two radio programs\, including Explorations. Philip Maldari\, a veteran broadcast journalist on KPFA\, is currently host of the Sunday Show.Hosted by Philip Maldari $12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/221358 t: 800-838-3006 or: Pegasus Books (3 locations)\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond\, DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, in SF - Modern Times Bookstore  ($15 door) Information: www.kpfa.org/events \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley - 2345 Channing Way at Dana \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2170 DTSTART:20120223T193000 DTEND:20120223T210000 SUMMARY:Academy Awards Preview Night with NYU film historian Harry Chotiner DESCRIPTION:LiveTalk\, College Preparatory School's evening lecture series\, is open to the entire community.  We hope you will join us. Thursday\, 23 February\, 2012  7:30 PM Academy Awards Preview Nightwith NYU film historian Harry ChotinerJoin us for one of the most entertaining and beloved evenings in the LiveTalk series.  Renowned film historian Harry Chotiner will guide us through an in-depth preview of Academy Awards 2012.  This annual College Prep tradition features New York University film history professor and former Twentieth Century Fox vice president Harry Chotiner.  Professor Chotiner’s informed perspective offers an inside look at the nominees\, along with plenty of lively\, interactive audience participation.  We add hot popcorn\, soda\, candies and door prizes! Bring your opinions and get a copy of Harry’s picks for the best movies\, actors\, and directors of the year. A must attend for movie lovers!Tickets for individual lectures are $15 and available by registering at link below.Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. We recommend you arrive 20 minutes ahead to ensure the best seating. The College Preparatory SchoolButtner Auditorium 6100 BroadwayOakland\, CA 94618 Driving Directions\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The College Preparatory School - 6100 Broadway \, Oakland\, CA 94618 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2174 DTSTART:20120223T193000 DTEND:20120223T213000 SUMMARY:Film: Joanna DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.Director Feliks Falk spins a gripping story about Joanna\, a Polish woman (Urszula Grabowska) to whom fate presents a split-second choice: to hide a young Jewish girl who she finds sleeping in a church. When seven-year-old Rose is separated from her mother in German-occupied Warsaw during a round up\, she seeks refuge in the pews where Joanna goes to pray. Joanna\, a piano teacher who is waiting to hear news of her soldier husband who she has not seen in years\, takes the child home and they embark on a relationship that helps to heal their losses. The contrasts between the bleaks streets of Warsaw and the terror-ridden\, paranoid interactions between the Poles\, and the warmth of Joanna's home and heart are sharp and highlight the strain of trying to live normally during wartime. Joanna's family wonders why she has become increasingly isolated\, while Joanna faces difficult decisions if Rose is to survive.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC of the East Bay - 1414 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2191 DTSTART:20120223T190000 DTEND:20120223T210000 SUMMARY:Exploring 7 Billion: Population\, Inequities and Our Changing Climate DESCRIPTION:In cooperation with Berkeley Ecology Center\, we'll host a screening of the internationally acclaimed award-winning film\, Mother: Caring for 7 Billion\, followed by a panel discussion on population and the environment. Join experts from the Institute for Population Studies (IPS)\, the Sierra Club\, Global Footprint Network and Earth Island Institute as we explore the complex and critical - yet often not discussed - intersection of population growth and climate change and the effects both have on human health\, women’s rights\, and the social and economic issues we face globally and locally. Time: 7:00-9:00pm Cost: Free Location: Berkeley Ecology Center\, 2530 San Pablo. Ave.\, Berkeley Visit our Facebook page for more details.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ecology Center - 2530 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2209 DTSTART:20120223T173000 DTEND:20120223T190000 SUMMARY:Living in Berkeley: Are You Having Fun Yet? DESCRIPTION: A panel of Berkeley leaders discuss important initiatives in the areas near campus.  Attendees are invited to share their perspectives and ideas regarding:  Lower SproulDowntown BerkeleyTelegraph AvenueOther City-University PartnershipsPanelists:  John Caner\; Executive Director\, Downtown Berkeley Association.  Doris Moskowitz\; Owner\, Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue.  Bahar Navab\; President\, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly.  Thomas Spivey\; Associate Director\, ASUC Auxiliary..Moderator: Polly Armstrong\; President\, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. Sponsored by Berkeley Councilmembers Laurie Capitelli\, Susan Wengraf and Gordon Wozniak\, The UC Berkeley Office of Government Community Relations\, The Downtown Berkeley Association\, Berkeley City College\, Berkeleyside and the UC Graduate Assembly.  \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Stephen's Lounge\, MLK Student Union - University of California \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2333 DTSTART:20120223T180000 DTEND:20120223T190000 SUMMARY:The Japanese Edo Period: An exploration of the arts DESCRIPTION:Please join Eastern Classics for a fun and interactive presentation by Professor/Author Dr. Nancy Stalker\, visiting Asian Studies professor at UC Berkeley as she highlights the Japanese Edo Period through an exploration of the decorative arts and social culture of the time.  Among her varied topics will include woodblock prints\, kabuki theatre\, and the culture of courtesans.refreshments and appetizers will be served.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Eastern Classics - 1328 Tenth Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2345 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120224 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1455 DTSTART:20120224T200000 DTEND:20120224T200000 SUMMARY:Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company DESCRIPTION:Bill T. Jones -- whose major honors include a MacArthur "Genius" Award\, the Kennedy Center Honor\, and a Tony Award for Best Choreography for the Broadway hit FELA! -- returns to Zellerbach Hall to perform a thrilling new multidisciplinary work. Jones's inventive choreography will accompany a cascade of poignant short stories drawn from his life\, as narrated by Jones himself from the stage. Original music and film will create the environment for Jones's charismatic performance presence and his unique company of dancers\, now in its 29th year. "One of the glories of American dance" (San Francisco Chronicle). \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1610 DTSTART:20120224T110000 DTEND:20120224T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1710 DTSTART:20120224T000000 DTEND:20120224T000000 SUMMARY:L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA: The Moon (Part Two) DESCRIPTION:Programmed by Land and Sea   Doors 5:00 Poetry Reading: Monica Peck 5:30 DJ 6:30   Artist/curator Rich Jacobs starts off this second installment of The Moon with a DJ set inspired by that celestial orb. Then hear a new composition by experimental turntablist Julia Mazawa\, who handcrafts audio interpretations of Klein Bottles and Möbius strips using vinyl’s hisses\, pops\, and musical snippets. Poet and Guggenheim Fellow Matthew Zapruder reads a series of moon poems and Believer (Danny Grody of Tarantel and Trevor Montgomery of The Drift) soothes us with lush\, atmospheric\, and blissful sounds. Remember the evening with a free copy of Land and Sea’s publication of Matthew Zapruder’s moon poems.     Admission is $7\; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1840 DTSTART:20120224T204500 DTEND:20120224T204500 SUMMARY:Barbary Coast\, Howard Hawks (U.S.\, 1935) DESCRIPTION:San Francisco\, 1849: where there’s gold\, there will be golddiggers\, and so we find Miriam Hopkins arriving without pick and shovel but with big plans. When her first stake doesn’t pan out\, she takes up with corrupt boss Edward G. Robinson\, but then a chance meeting with poetical prospector Joel McCrea stirs something softer within her. The script by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur gives the stars plenty to chew on\, but some of the best bits go to toothless swindler Walter Brennan\, whose Old Atrocity suggests the film’s central question: whether people are as bad as they seem\, or as they think they are. Juliet Clark Written by Ben Hecht\, Charles MacArthur\, Edward Chodorov. Photographed by Ray June. With Miriam Hopkins\, Edward G. Robinson\, Joel McCrea\, Walter Brennan. (91 mins\, B&W\, 35mm\, From Samuel Goldwyn Trust)Theater Admission Prices Single Feature $5.50 BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley Students $9.50 Adults (18-64) $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and retirees Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Youth (17 & under Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1856 DTSTART:20120224T190000 DTEND:20120224T190000 SUMMARY:Dizzy Heights: High Treason\, Maurice Elvey (U.K.\, 1929) Archival Print! DESCRIPTION:Live Music            Peter Chapman   Peter Chapman\, who will perform a modern take on High Treason\, scores film and television in Toronto.   Billed as a “vision of 1940\,” High Treason is unmistakably a product of the 1920s. In its futuristic London\, flappers reign and bootlegging persists -- albeit alongside personal helicopters and teleconferencing. With Europe and the “Atlantic States” threatening war\, the Channel Tunnel sabotaged\, and arms dealers plotting chaos\, the Peace League must stage a popular revolt in the air force -- and in so doing repair the romance between a pacifist and a soldier. A modernist Lysistrata\, an English Metropolis: High Treason is science fiction for the Jazz Age. (We are screening a silent print of a film originally released in both sound and silent versions.) Patrick Ellis   Written by L’Estrange Fawcett\, from the play by Noel Pemberton Billing. Photographed by Percy Strong. With Benita Hume\, Jameson Thomas\, Humberston Wright\, Basil Gill. (75 mins\, 24 fps\, Silent\, B&W\, 35mm\, From British Film Institute\, permission Park Circus)  Theater Admission PricesSingle Feature$5.50 BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley Students$9.50 Adults (18-64)$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and retireesNon-UC Berkeley studentsSenior citizens (65 & over)Disabled personsYouth (17 & underAdditional Feature $4.00 All Patrons\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1907 DTSTART:20120224T200000 DTEND:20120224T223000 SUMMARY:Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill DESCRIPTION:exquisite\, essential Irish fiddle & guitar duo\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2006 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120225 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2152 DTSTART:20120224T193000 DTEND:20120224T193000 SUMMARY:Richard Mason reads from 'History of a Pleasure Seeker' DESCRIPTION:From Amsterdam at the turn of the last century  to New York at the time of the 1907 financial crisis\, the novel proceeds onboard a luxury liner headed for Cape Town\, following the adventures of a young Dutchman\, Piet Barol.History of a Pleasure Seeker (Knopf\, $25.95) is a brilliantly written portrait of the senses\, a novel about pleasure and those who are in search of it\; those who embrace it\, luxuriate in it\, need it\; and those who deprive themselves of it as they do those they love. It is a book that beguiles and transports -- to another world\, another time\, another state of being.Richard Mason was born in South Africa in 1978 and lives in New York City.  His first novel\, The Drowning People\, published when he was twenty-one and still a student at Oxford\, sold more than a million copies worldwide and won Italy’s Grinzane Cavour Prize for Best First Novel.  He is also the author of Natural Elements\, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the best books of 2009.   \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - \, \, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2179 DTSTART:20120224T183000 DTEND:20120224T203000 SUMMARY:Tarot & Telepathy @ Hippie Gypsy Cafe' DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun evening of Tarot & Telepathy with intuitionist Courtney Kolb. Courtney uses his intuition and psychic abilities to empower and entertain people with intuitive readings & healings.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2309 DTSTART:20120224T190000 DTEND:20120224T210000 SUMMARY:A Man Named Pearl DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Friends Church Friday Night at the Movies Presents: “A Man Named Pearl (2006\, directed by Scott Galloway & Brent Pierson). Factory worker and self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar transformed his South Carolina yard into a wondrous garden in this inspiring documentary. In response to neighbors who feared an African American wouldn't maintain his property\, Fryar created an awe-inspiring landscape that draws tourists from all 50 states.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Friends Church - 1600 Sacramento Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2346 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120225 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1456 DTSTART:20120225T200000 DTEND:20120225T200000 SUMMARY:Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company DESCRIPTION:Bill T. Jones -- whose major honors include a MacArthur "Genius" Award\, the Kennedy Center Honor\, and a Tony Award for Best Choreography for the Broadway hit FELA! -- returns to Zellerbach Hall to perform a thrilling new multidisciplinary work. Jones's inventive choreography will accompany a cascade of poignant short stories drawn from his life\, as narrated by Jones himself from the stage. Original music and film will create the environment for Jones's charismatic performance presence and his unique company of dancers\, now in its 29th year. "One of the glories of American dance" (San Francisco Chronicle). \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1611 DTSTART:20120225T110000 DTEND:20120225T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1857 DTSTART:20120225T180000 DTEND:20120225T180000 SUMMARY:Dizzy Heights: The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower\, Julien Duvivier (France\, 1927) Archival Print! DESCRIPTION:Live Music            Ken Ueno\, Matt Ingals\, Hadley MacCarroll Introduction            Guest Curator Patrick Ellis   UC Berkeley Professor Ken Ueno (vocals/electric guitar)\, along with Matt Ingalls (clarinets/laptop) and Hadley MacCarroll (piano) create viscerally modern accompaniment for silent films.   (Le mystère de la tour Eiffel). A palate cleanser for those who found Spielberg’s Tintin wanting\, Julien Duvivier’s late-silent adventure masterpiece served as an inspiration for the original Tintin comics\, and delivers much of the same charm\, inventiveness\, and visual delight. Le mystère de la tour Eiffel traces the escapades of carnival worker / millionaire heir Achilles Saturnin as he battles the international crime syndicate known as the Ku-Klux-Eiffel. Flying wildly from mountain peaks to the pinnacle of the Eiffel Tower\, this is a film obsessed with the aerial view. We are pleased to be screening the EYE Film Institute Netherlands restored 35mm print\, the only known copy of this rare film. Patrick Ellis   Written by Alfred Machard. Photographed by René Guychard\, Armand Thirard. With Félicien Tramel\, Régine Bouet\, Gaston Jacquet. (129 mins\, 18 fps\, Silent with Dutch intertitles and live English translation\, B&W\, 35mm\, From the EYE Film Institute Netherlands\, permission Lobster Films and Christian Duvivier)    Theater Admission PricesSingle Feature$5.50 BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley Students$9.50 Adults (18-64)$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and retireesNon-UC Berkeley studentsSenior citizens (65 & over)Disabled personsYouth (17 & underAdditional Feature $4.00 All Patrons\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1908 DTSTART:20120225T200000 DTEND:20120225T223000 SUMMARY:Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill DESCRIPTION:exquisite\, essential Irish fiddle & guitar duo\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2007 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120226 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2177 DTSTART:20120225T130000 DTEND:20120225T143000 SUMMARY:Special Panel Discussion on the Artist Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, February 25\, 2012\, 1pm - 2:30pm de Young Museum (details below)Special Panel Discussion on the Artist Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) The Center for the Arts\, Religion and Education (CARE) announces a panel discussion on the artist Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) at the de Young Museum\, in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler. The panel will include Timothy Anglin Burgard\, Ednah Root Curator in Charge of American Art for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\; Nancy M. Servis\, Executive Director of the Richmond Art Center\; and John Toki\, a noted Bay Area sculptor and former assistant to Stephen De Staebler. The discussion will be moderated by John Handley\, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary. Seating is first come\, first seated. Koret Auditorium de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Koret Auditorium De Young Museum - 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive \, San Francisco\, CA 94118 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2311 DTSTART:20120225T100000 DTEND:20120225T170000 SUMMARY:Relax\, Release\, Revitalize! DESCRIPTION: Learn simple\, comfortable practices to activate relaxation and ease throughout your body and spirit.  Class covers neck\, shoulders\, back\, limbs\, and maybe more. 10-5\, $115.  Sara Sunstein\, MA\, Reg. Instructor\, Ortho-Bionomy®. 510.526.5414\, www.sarasunstein.com/whatsnew.html. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Cornell Studio - Cornell and Hopkins \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2347 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120226 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=141 DTSTART:20120226T110000 DTEND:20120226T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1612 DTSTART:20120226T110000 DTEND:20120226T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1716 DTSTART:20120226T100000 DTEND:20120226T113000 SUMMARY:Chickens 201 DESCRIPTION:So you’ve had your backyard chickens for a while now\, but you realize there is so much more to know! Join chicken farmer Alexis Koefoed at this class for chicken owners -- topics covered include disease diagnosis\, pest control\, and enhancing the health of your chickens. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers -- this is a great opportunity to ask a real expert! Instructor: Alexis Koefoed has owned Soul Food Farm for 5 years raising chickens and eggs\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1717 DTSTART:20120226T120000 DTEND:20120226T130000 SUMMARY:Chickens 201 DESCRIPTION:So you’ve had your backyard chickens for a while now\, but you realize there is so much more to know! Join chicken farmer Alexis Koefoed at this class for chicken owners -- topics covered include disease diagnosis\, pest control\, and enhancing the health of your chickens. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers -- this is a great opportunity to ask a real expert! Instructor: Alexis Koefoed has owned Soul Food Farm for 5 years raising chickens and eggs\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1718 DTSTART:20120226T133000 DTEND:20120226T163000 SUMMARY:Backyard Beekeeping DESCRIPTION:This popular class fills up every time we offer it\, so sign up early! Honeybees are a joy to keep in the backyard simply for their buzzing presence and\, on hot days\, the smell of honey\, wafting through the air within ten feet of the hive. They increase pollination in your yard and therefore increase your yields from fruit trees and vegetables. You may also harvest honey (gallons per year)\, beeswax\, pollen\, and propolis from the hive. We’ll cover what you need to know to feel ready to have a Langstroth backyard beehive -- how to get bees\, what equipment you need\, where to put the hive\, how to extract honey and upkeep the hive. There will be local honey to try. Instructor: Jennifer Radtke of BioFuel Oasis\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1858 DTSTART:20120226T140000 DTEND:20120226T140000 SUMMARY:Dizzy Heights: Fantasies of Flight: Animation and Comedy Shorts DESCRIPTION:Live Music            Frederick Hodges Introduction            Guest Curator Patrick Ellis   Pianist Frederick Hodges is a celebrated silent film accompanist who performs regularly at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.   The utter novelty of human flight during most of the silent period is hard for our post-jet-set age to fathom: this program aims to recapture an inkling of this lost sense of wonder. In the French comedy Airplane Gaze\, a city is turned upside down by the appearance of an airplane in the skies above. Edwin S. Porter’s classic The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend\, like Mother-in-Law Would Fly\, puts wings on an object that ought not fly: the bed. It is animation\, though\, that provided the most outlandish depiction of life in the air\, as made plain by the peripatetic house of Winsor McCay’s The Flying House and the repurposed word balloons of Walt Disney’s Alice’s Balloon Race. Our program ends with two classics: Méliès’s speculative fantasy of an aerial race to the pole and the Mack Sennett-produced avant-la-lettre aviatrix comedy\, Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts. Patrick Ellis   Airplane Gaze Director unknown\, France\, 1910\, 5 mins\, Silent\, B&W\, 35mm\, From British Film Institute\, permission Dr. Hansruedi Kleiber\, Joye Collection The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend Edwin S. Porter\, 1906\, 8 mins\, 16 fps\, Silent\, B&W\, 35mm\, From George Eastman House Mother-in-Law Would Fly (Schwiegermutter muß fliegen). Director unknown\, Germany\, 1909\, 5 mins\, Silent with German intertitles and live English translation\, B&W\, 35mm\, From British Film Institute\, permission Dr. Hansruedi Kleiber\, Joye Collection Alice’s Balloon Race Walt Disney\, 1926\, 8 mins\, Silent\, B&W\, 35mm\, From Walt Disney Studios Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts Walter Wright\, 1916\, 25 mins\, Silent\, B&W\, 16mm\, From Lobster Films The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House Winsor McCay\, 1921\, 16 mins\, 16 fps\, Silent\, B&W\, 16mm\, From Cinémathèque Québécoise The Conquest of the Pole (A la conquête du pôle) Georges Méliès\, France\, 1912\, 30 mins\, Silent\, Tinted\, DigiBeta\, From Lobster Films Total running time: 97 mins Theater Admission Prices Single Feature $5.50 BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley Students $9.50 Adults (18-64) $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and retirees Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Youth (17 & under Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1909 DTSTART:20120226T200000 DTEND:20120226T223000 SUMMARY:Dala DESCRIPTION:young & spirited\, harmony-rich Canadian folk-pop\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120227 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2032 DTSTART:20120226T123000 DTEND:20120226T140000 SUMMARY:LIVE JAZZ DESCRIPTION: Stop by for creativity at the next level... Jazz Every Sunday @ Hippie Gypsy from 12:30 - 2:00 Eli Wallace Performs Jazz inspired piano improvisations. Drawing on jazz\, modern classical music\, and his own compositions\, Eli weaves together diverse musical elements. A recent graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston\, MA he is excited to become more involved in the West coast music world. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2092 DTSTART:20120226T140000 DTEND:20120226T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2231 DTSTART:20120226T190000 DTEND:20120226T213000 SUMMARY:Safety Last (1923) DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Underground Film Society presents:Safety Last (1923)Country boy (Lloyd) heads to the big city to seek success. While working as a clerk in a department store\, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone who can bring more customers to the store. He then arranges for a friend\, a "human fly\," (Strother) to climb the face of the store building as a publicity stunt. Unfortunatly the "human fly" is a wanted man\, and when "The Law" (Young) shows\, our hero must make the climb\, himself. At each ledge he encounters new difficulties\, climaxing in the famous 'clock scene.'In 1994 the film was selected into the National Film Registry. In Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo\, a portion of the scene with Lloyd hanging from the clock is shown when the main characters sneak into a movie theater. Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer\, Sam TaylorWriters: Hal Roach\, Sam Taylor\, Tim WhelanStars: Harold Lloyd\, Mildred Davis\, Bill StrotherSuper 8 Balckhawk print from BUFS collection73 min./B&W/Silent/Musical AccompanimentALL AGES - FREE PARKING - WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Tannery - 708 Gilman St. \, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2291 DTSTART:20120226T120000 DTEND:20120226T160000 SUMMARY:Year of the Dragon Celebration at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Chinese New year at Golden Gate Fields with family-fun events including lion dancers\, acrobats and other Chinese-themed entertainment alongside premier Thoroughbred horse racing. Afraid of leaving empty handed? All guests will receive a lucky red envelope filled with a mystery voucher that could be worth up to $500. Sunday is also Dollar Day\, where admission\, beers\, hotdogs\, parking and sodas are only $1. Visit www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2295 DTSTART:20120226T100000 DTEND:20120226T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2335 DTSTART:20120226T200000 DTEND:20120226T213000 SUMMARY:First Person Singular: I'm With Cupid 2 - A WriterCoach Connection Benefit DESCRIPTION:Modern lovers\, lend us your ears: First Person Singular's I'm With Cupid is back for another fling - an all-new\, Valentine-themed recital and benefit for WriterCoach Connection. This time\, we delve into the rock-nd-roll repertoire circa 1979 - when tricks were cheap\, the knack was got\, and everyone's last name was Ramone. I'm With Cupid 2: New Wave Pleasures and Post-Punk Paens will bring you skinny-tie supplications\, geometrically-coiffed confidences\, and amorous anthems (with attitude!) to tap your All-Stars to. Up for an evening of hearts and letters? Let's connect! Performed by Joe Christiano and Theresa Kelly Wiith Joshua Raoul Brody\, piano\, and the All-A-Quiver Chorus. $10 suggested donation. More info at: www.1stpersonsingular.com www.writercoachconnection.org \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:St. Alban's Episcopal Church - 1501 Washington Avenue \, Albany\, CA usa 94706 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2348 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120227 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2389 DTSTART:20120226T110000 DTEND:20120226T180000 SUMMARY:Round Table Collaboration: Postal Collage Project #1 DESCRIPTION:Berkeley-based artist Marty McCutcheon brought together 50 collaborators -- from the Bay Area and other regions of the US\, Ireland\, the UK\, Denmark\, France\, Germany\, and Australia -- to create 50 vibrant\, intricate\, thought-provoking collages utilizing a broad range of materials. The participants\, ranging in age from 4 to 82\, were assembled in 10 groups in September 2011\, and used 'snail mail' to collaborate with each other on the collages during in the development process.This exhibit is being shown in the historic Shuman Block building at 2571 Shattuck Ave.\, Berkeley\, which has housed artist studios since 1952. Opening reception from 6-9 pm on February 25. February 26 viewing hours from 11 am to 6 pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Shuman Block Artist Studio Building - 2571 Shattuck Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=800 DTSTART:20120227T091500 DTEND:20120227T101500 SUMMARY:local Business networking DESCRIPTION:Local business owners meet for coffee every other Monday At Saul's Deli on shattuck ave in berkeley. http://www.saulsdeli.com/. We meet to  network and share leads with each other. The next meeting is monday Oct 10th @9:15am. All are welcome.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sauls Deli - 1475 Sahttuck ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1910 DTSTART:20120227T200000 DTEND:20120227T223000 SUMMARY:Classical at the Freight: Rossini Birthday Celebration DESCRIPTION:an informal and invigorating evening of chamber music\, with Ben Simon\, host\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120228 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2260 DTSTART:20120227T190000 DTEND:20120227T210000 SUMMARY:Berkeley Lab's Science at the Theater DESCRIPTION: Berkeley Lab's Science at the Theater presents four scientists describing their extreme research\, from neutrino hunting in Antarctica to cells that talk to computers. FREE.Berkeley Repertory Theatre\, 2025 Addison St. More info here. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Repertory Theatre - 2015 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2336 DTSTART:20120227T173000 DTEND:20120227T190000 SUMMARY:Renovation Demystified - FREE Intro Class for Women DESCRIPTION:You want to purchase a home\, but can’t quite afford the place of your dreams. Maybe you love the charm of older houses and notice that every one you see has major issues... or you’re happy in your house\, but you have a sneaking suspicion that it may fall down around you if you don’t repair it. What’s a girl to do?This evening will demystify the process of dealing with a fixer-upper property\, with step-by-step instructions on what to look for\, who to consult and how to live through the process without tearing your hair (or someone else’s!) out.You will leave the class with empowerment and some tools to get started in the journey toward creating the home you want to live in.Jodi Selene\, Realtor\, LEED AP\, Certified Green Real Estate Professional\, has renovated 18 single family homes and condos\, including the first permitted straw bale house in Berkeley\, and developed a parcel of raw land for building. She has also represented many others in their dream of home ownership.This is an introductory discussion that will give you some tools and resources. This is not meant to replace the skills of a licensed contractor or other licensed consultants.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Red Oak Realty - TBA with reservation \, Oakland\, CA 94609 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2349 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120228 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1841 DTSTART:20120228T190000 DTEND:20120228T190000 SUMMARY:His Girl Friday. Howard Hawks (U.S.\, 1940) Restored Print! DESCRIPTION:Tuesday / 2.28.12 7:00 To Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s cynical portrait of tabloid journalism in The Front Page\, Hawks added doubly cynical romance\, transforming crime reporter Hildy Johnson into a gal (Rosalind Russell) and thus drawing the Machiavellian machinations of newsroom editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) into the sexual arena. Grant and Russell could talk faster than actors today can think\; in the hands of Hawks\, who had a sense of sound as movement\, the lines come at breakneck speed\, dialogue overlapping constantly. One experiences not a string of one-liners but a jazz-like sound quality: dense\, rhythmic\, layered\, in motion. Judy Bloch   Written by Charles Lederer\, from the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht\, Charles MacArthur. Photographed by Joseph Walker. With Cary Grant\, Rosalind Russell\, Ralph Bellamy\, Gene Lockhart. (92 mins\, B&W\, 35mm\, From Sony Pictures) Theater Admission Prices Single Feature $5.50 BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley Students $9.50 Adults (18-64) $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and retirees Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Youth (17 & under Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1911 DTSTART:20120228T200000 DTEND:20120228T223000 SUMMARY:Freight Open Mic DESCRIPTION:pay your dues\; play & schmooze\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2010 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120229 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2202 DTSTART:20120228T180000 DTEND:20120228T200000 SUMMARY:Free Quit Smoking Class DESCRIPTION:Freedom from Smoking is a free 6 session quit group provided by the City of Berkeley\, Tobacco Prevention Program.  Free acupuncture will be offered to assist in quitting.  All are welcome to attend\, please register by calling 510-981-5330 or emailing QuitNow@ci.berkeley.ca.us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:South Berkeley Senior Center - 2939 Ellis Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2350 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120229 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=63 DTSTART:20120229T180000 DTEND:20120229T210000 SUMMARY:Rooted and Rising DESCRIPTION: Rooted and Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions SalonThe New Leaders Initative is launching a new event series\, called Rooted and Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions Salon.These events\, geared towards youth ages 13-25\, are all about orienting participants towards new ways of thinking about age-old environmental and social justice 'problems'.This is an RSVP ONLY event\, so complete the survey below and find out more about this exciting series:http://eii.org/bya/ rootedandrisingOur inagural event\, "Waste Not\, Want Not" begins at 6:15pm on August 24th. "Waste Not\, Want Not" will bring together Dianna Cohen from the Plastics Pollution Coalition\, Alex Lin - 2007 Brower Youth Award Winner\, and Bridgett Luther of Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation\, to discuss solutions to the problem of waste in our society.Be sure to complete the survey as soon as possible to reserve your spot at the first Rooted and Rising! Space is *highly* limited\, as we feel that smaller groups\, comprised mostly of youth under the age of 25\, will give more opportunity for interaction\, idea-sharing and networking.We will provide food\, drink and merriment but we need you to RSVP to reserve your spot by completing the survey:http://eii.org/bya/ rootedandrisingFind us on Facebook: https://www. facebook.com/event.php?eid= 234364523268596#!/event.php? eid=124345120990617For any questions\, contact bya@earthisland.org.See you at Rooted and Rising! \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:David Brower Center - 2150 Allston Way\, Suite 460 (4th Floor) \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1457 DTSTART:20120229T200000 DTEND:20120229T200000 SUMMARY:Andras Schiff DESCRIPTION:In his only West Coast appearance this season\, a musical artist of singular renown returns to Cal Performances. Hungarian pianist András Schiff plays in the grand Romantic tradition and with profound insight\, and over the decades his legendary recording output has made him a favorite of audiences worldwide. Schiff's Berkeley concert features Beethoven's glorious Diabelli Variations\, one of the towering compositions for the piano and often considered the match to Bach's immortal Goldberg Variations. "Schiff's interpretations were beautifully conceived with an intimacy and insight that spoke of his own profound feeling for the music" (Daily Telegraph\, London).Program: Bach: Three-Part Inventions • Bartók: Piano Sonata • Beethoven: Diabelli Variations \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1613 DTSTART:20120229T110000 DTEND:20120229T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1712 DTSTART:20120229T000000 DTEND:20120229T133000 SUMMARY:Curator’s Tour: State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 DESCRIPTION:Join Adjunct Curator Constance M. Lewallen for an insightful introduction to State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970\, which highlights the originality and inventiveness of artists working in both Southern and Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s and investigates their vital contributions to Conceptual art and experimental practices. Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970\, part of Pacific Standard Time\, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display -- many rarely seen or newly discovered -- are organized by themes\, such as the street\, the body\, politics\, private/public space\, and language/wordplay\, that elucidate this dynamic era in our history and foreshadow the concerns of young artists working today.  Included with Musuem Admission:Free BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees\, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students\, Senior citizens (65 & over)\, Disabled persons\, Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1800 DTSTART:20120229T151000 DTEND:20120229T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1832 DTSTART:20120229T190000 DTEND:20120229T190000 SUMMARY:You All Are Captains\, Oliver Laxe (Spain/Morocco\, 2010) DESCRIPTION:One of the rare movies in which action is imbued with thought\, and in which the very process of thought seems to come to life. Richard Brody\, New Yorker   (Todos vós sodes capitáns). You All Are Captains\, the tender and surprising new film by Oliver Laxe\, blurs fiction and documentary as it chronicles a young Spanish director’s attempt to make a film with a group of Moroccan children. When the children revolt\, the film shifts from the city to the country\, and takes up the children’s vision of what movies should be. Described by New Yorker critic Richard Brody as “a wise reflection about children\, foreignness\, and the cinema itself. Imagine something of a blend of François Truffaut’s Small Change and Day for Night\, but with the intimacy of Abbas Kiarostami’s films about children.”   (78 mins\, In Arabic\, French\, Spanish\, with English subtitles\, B&W/Color\, 35mm\, From Northwest Film Forum)Theater Admission Prices Single Feature $5.50 BAM/PFA Members\, UC Berkeley Students $9.50 Adults (18-64) $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and retirees Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Youth (17 & under Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1912 DTSTART:20120229T200000 DTEND:20120229T223000 SUMMARY:Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out DESCRIPTION:rural rhythm & bluegrass\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120229 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120301 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2066 DTSTART:20120229T183000 DTEND:20120229T210000 SUMMARY:Coming of Age on The Page: Writing for Young Adults DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Laura GoodeContact: laura.goode@gmail.comNumber of sessions: 8Meeting time: Wednesday nights\, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmDates: Feb. 1 - March 21Course fee: $425\, with $100 to secure a spot in the classDescription: The 2000s may well be regarded as young adult literature’s golden age\, with YA sales surpassing all other literary genres and YA subject matter veering increasingly into the risky and new. This eight-week course will serve as a primer on how to write your first (or next) novel for young adults. We’ll examine many of the questions faced by all fictioneers\, such as how to plot\, pace\, structure\, and populate an engrossing novel\, and interrogate others more particular to YA: What makes a story starring a teenager different from a book composed for teenagers? How does an author make a YA novel accessible to young readers without dumbing it down? What is the responsibility of the YA author in distinguishing between the issues young readers need to see reflected on the page\, and issues they’re not ready to handle? What role does gender play in the YA market? Why and in what ways can young adult literature appeal to both teens and adults?Week by week\, we’ll first work to build a tight synopsis of your story\, and then move into workshopping individual chapters and discussing how to sell your novel. Writers need not be published\, nor is there any prerequisite for the class apart from a passion for providing young people with great literature. Bring a story idea and the title of your favorite YA novel to the first class.Instructor Bio: Laura Goode’s debut novel for young adults\, Sister Mischief\, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011. Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, The Rumpus\, The Faster Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The New Inquiry\, Dossier\, Slope\, and other publications. Visit her website at www.lauragoode.com.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:San Francisco Writers' Grotto - 490 2nd St 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA United States 94107 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2315 DTSTART:20120229T120000 DTEND:20120229T120000 SUMMARY:Berkeley City College hosts Black History Month Events DESCRIPTION:A series of lectures\, art shows\, poetry readings and performances are planned for Berkeley City College’s 2012 Black History Month celebration.  Events\, free and open to the public\, are:Wed.\, Feb. 15•  Noon-12:45 p.m.\, Deborah Ale Flint\, BCC Black History Month Presentation\, Rm. 431•  12:30-2 p.m.\, Poetry\, Speakers\, African      American Historical Displays\,  Ethopian Food Fest\,  BCC AtriumWed.\, Feb. 22•  Noon-2 p.m.\, Hip-Hop Culture with Live Band  by Mr. Jahi\, a BCC Black History Month Eventwith Graffitti Art Display and Jamaican Food Fest\, Atrium Wed.\, Feb. 29•  Noon-12:45 p.m.\, Presentations by attorney Dee Dee Abdur Rahim\, founder of Culture with a Cause and by Dr. Nyeshia Dewitt\, Manager of Oakland’s Promise Alliance and 2011 Jefferson Service Award Winner\,  Rm. 431•  Noon-2 p.m.\, Motown Day and Soul Food Fest\,  AtriumBerkeley City College is located at 2050 Center St.\, between Shattuck and Milvia Sts.  It is accessible via the Richmond BART train and by AC Transit.Shirley FogarinoPublic Information OfficerBerkeley City College(510) 981-2852\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley City College - 2050 Center Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2351 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120229 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120301 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1614 DTSTART:20120301T110000 DTEND:20120301T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2012 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120302 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2048 DTSTART:20120301T210000 DTEND:20120301T223000 SUMMARY:Hadag Nahash DESCRIPTION:27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsHADAG NAHASHOPENING NIGHT!Israel’s most notorious hip hop crew combines fresh electro and funk flavor with Middle Eastern airtight grooves.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The New Parish - 579 18th Street \, Oakland\, CA 94612 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2233 DTSTART:20120301T200000 DTEND:20120302T103000 SUMMARY:Leftover Dreams DESCRIPTION:gems from the Great American Songbook\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2261 DTSTART:20120301T190000 DTEND:20120301T203000 SUMMARY:Lightweight Backpacking Basics at REI DESCRIPTION:Do you want to try backpacking\, but worry about carrying a heavy pack? Or\, are you a backpacker who wants to lighten your load? REI backpacking expert Jason Conner will provide excellent tips on lightweight backpacking techniques. Included are shelters\, backpacks\, food choices\, and fuel efficiency. If you register for this free class at www.rei.com/berkeley\, we will hold a seat for you until the scheduled start time.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:REI Berkeley - 1338 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2316 DTSTART:20120301T190000 DTEND:20120301T210000 SUMMARY:Rick's Supper Club-Bocanova DESCRIPTION:Beginning Thursday\, March 1\, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.\, Owner/Chef Rick Hackett and Bocanova invite you to experience a special dinner series in partnership with several of the East Bay’s most notable winemakers. A four-course family-style menu\, priced at $58.00\, will include wine pairings and a signature cocktail\, created by Bar Manager Stella Davies. Served in Bocanova’s intimate private dining room\, each of “Rick’s Supper Club” dinners will provide guests the opportunity to interact with both the featured winemaker and Rick in a convivial setting. Each month\, “Rick’s Supper Club” menu will be crafted to complement a specific East Bay produced wine. For the first of the dinner series\, Rick welcomes extraordinary winemaker and long-time friend\, Steve Edmunds. The supper menu will feature uniquely created dishes such as Ahi Tuna Crudo with caper\, tomatillo\, chiles\, and raisins\; Sea Green and Quinoa Chowder\; Achiote Marinated Turkey Breast with jalapeno and mint salsa\; and Leche Fritas with lucuma ice cream. Bocanova’s Private Dining Room55 Webster Street (in Jack London Square)Oakland\, CA 94607510 .444.1233www.bocanova.com Price:                         $58.00 per person for a signature cocktail and a four-course family-style menu with paired wines\; exclusive of tax and gratuity\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Bocanova - 55 Webster St Jack London Square\, Oaklan\, CA 94607 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2320 DTSTART:20120301T200000 DTEND:20120301T230000 SUMMARY:Subterranean Arthouse: 3rd Annual Anniversary Benefest Weekend DESCRIPTION:Celebrate and support Berkeley’s premiere non-profit and volunteer-run performance venue. Enjoy a weekend extravaganza featuring some of the best Bay Area musicians\, dancers\, and visual artists.Tickets: $20 -100 (sliding scale)Advance tickets available at:www.BrownPaperTickets.com More information:www.SubterraneanArthouse.org Visual Art show with artists:Joanna RuckmanPaz de la CalzadaSarah Peet Thursday\, March 1Doors 8\, show 8:30Inspector Gadje/ The SkinnyA night of funky Balkan Brass and sweet Americana Friday\, March 27:30 doors\,  8 showVariety Show:An all-star collection of Bay Area musicians\, poets\, and dancersRamon and JessicaKally Price and Rob ReichSeth EisenFreddi PriceLila NelsonProfessor Burns and the Lilac FieldDaria KaufmanMamaCoatl FRIDAY NIGHT SILENT AUCTION!Dance Party with members of Mad Cow Stringband and West Nile Ramblers   Saturday\, March 37 doors\, 7:30 showGautam Tejas Ganeshan(New Directions in Indian Classical Music)Real Vocal String Quartet(amazing world folk vocal chamber)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Subterranean Art House - 2179 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2352 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120302 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=279 DTSTART:20120302T200000 DTEND:20120302T220000 SUMMARY:First Friday Neighborhood Square Dance DESCRIPTION:Live music\, live calling\, great dancing every first Friday of the month. All levels welcome. All dances are taught. Fun is had.Music by the Squirrelly Stringband. Calling by Jordan Ruyle\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library - 6501 Telegraph Ave \, Oakland\, CA 94609 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1615 DTSTART:20120302T110000 DTEND:20120302T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2013 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120303 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2234 DTSTART:20120302T200000 DTEND:20120302T223000 SUMMARY:Don Burnham & the Bolos DESCRIPTION:classic western swing\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2285 DTSTART:20120302T170000 DTEND:20120302T170000 SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Oakland artist FRANCISCO SANTO at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception for Oakland artist FRANCISCO SANTO!  Welcome his watercolors to our gallery.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2308 DTSTART:20120302T190000 DTEND:20120302T210000 SUMMARY:Music & Tamales! Featuring Los Cenzontles DESCRIPTION:Los Cenzontles\, based in San Pablo\, CA\, infuses a distinctly contemporary\, American sound with deep Mexican roots. The band will be performing at Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center on March 2nd at the 2nd annual Music & Tamales event. Join us for an evening of superb musical entertainment\, homemade tamales\, beverages\, and great company!Tickets are on sale now. Call 510-233-8015 or stop by the Center (13108 San Pablo Ave.\, San Pablo\, CA 94805 - in Dias Plaza) to purchase your ticketswww.loscenzontles.comwww.facebook.com/cenzontles\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center - 13108 San Pablo Ave. Dias Plaza\, San Pablo\, CA 94805 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2321 DTSTART:20120302T200000 DTEND:20120302T230000 SUMMARY:Subterranean Arthouse: 3rd Annual Anniversary Benefest Weekend DESCRIPTION:Celebrate and support Berkeley’s premiere non-profit and volunteer-run performance venue. Enjoy a weekend extravaganza featuring some of the best Bay Area musicians\, dancers\, and visual artists.Tickets: $20 -100 (sliding scale)Advance tickets available at:www.BrownPaperTickets.com More information:www.SubterraneanArthouse.org Visual Art show with artists:Joanna RuckmanPaz de la CalzadaSarah Peet Thursday\, March 1Doors 8\, show 8:30Inspector Gadje/ The SkinnyA night of funky Balkan Brass and sweet Americana Friday\, March 27:30 doors\,  8 showVariety Show:An all-star collection of Bay Area musicians\, poets\, and dancersRamon and JessicaKally Price and Rob ReichSeth EisenFreddi PriceLila NelsonProfessor Burns and the Lilac FieldDaria KaufmanMamaCoatl FRIDAY NIGHT SILENT AUCTION!Dance Party with members of Mad Cow Stringband and West Nile Ramblers   Saturday\, March 37 doors\, 7:30 showGautam Tejas Ganeshan(New Directions in Indian Classical Music)Real Vocal String Quartet(amazing world folk vocal chamber)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Subterranean Art House - 2179 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2353 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120303 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1458 DTSTART:20120303T150000 DTEND:20120303T150000 SUMMARY:Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra DESCRIPTION:A tasty musical gumbo\, here's classic New Orleans jazz served with blistering Creole heat! Founded by trumpeter\, composer\, and bandleader Irvin Mayfield\, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) has headlined at a host of major American venues and clubs\, including Benaroya Hall in Seattle\, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago\, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. The Grammy-nominated and Billboard Award-winning Mayfield leads the band with a sense of unrestrained virtuosity and fun\, and has emerged as "a leading voice of the Crescent City's modern jazz tradition" (Detroit Free Press). NOJO's repertoire is steeped in the jazz canon of New Orleans\, and includes original compositions by Mayfield and big band scores by Duke Ellington and Count Basie. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1616 DTSTART:20120303T110000 DTEND:20120303T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1915 DTSTART:20120303T100000 DTEND:20120303T110000 SUMMARY:TRANSITION BERKELEY'S 1ST SATURDAY SWAP DESCRIPTION:TRANSITION BERKELEY'S  1ST SATURDAY SWAP January 7th\, 10 - 11 am Exchange books\, clothing\, crops and ideas at our new monthly swaps - the first Saturdays\, 10-11 a.m. Transition Berkeley's successful Crop Swap\, in which neighbors happily shared produce and seedlings they raised this past summer\, has expanded to include books and clothing for children and adults. Everyone is invited to bring books and/or clothing that are clean and in good condition. Trade jeans for sweaters\, Shakespeare for Michael Pollan. Go home with a new outfit and a new read. If you have a large amount of clothing or books to share please bring a table to display them on.  We hope everyone will start planting vegetable seeds and bring seedlings to swap for winter gardens. Let's swap ideas too\, for other ways to make our community sustainable\, and self sufficient while we have more fun together. if you have questions or to volunteer to help with the swaps\, contact Carole Bennett-Simmons\,  caroleannbs@yahoo.com. Rain will cancel until we find an alternate site for rainy days. Location is the same:  Ohlone Greenway at Delaware and Sacramento\, right across from the North Berkeley BART Station.  \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ohlone Greenway - Sacramento and Delaware Streets \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2014 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120304 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2049 DTSTART:20120303T200000 DTEND:20120303T213000 SUMMARY:27th JMF: Michael Winograd Ensemble with Judith Berkson DESCRIPTION:The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsMichael Winograd Ensemble with Judith BerksonWEST COAST PREMIER A rising star of neo-klezmer\, Michael and his clarinet take the lead with top players including Deborah Strauss (violin)\, Joshua Horowitz (cimbalom and piano) and others. With vocalist Judith Berkson\, recipient of the Six Points Fellowship. To purchase tickets and for the full Festival schedule\, call us or visit our website.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA United States 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2235 DTSTART:20120303T200000 DTEND:20120303T223000 SUMMARY:Michael Winograd & Judith Berkson DESCRIPTION:contemporary klezmer & cantorial music\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street\, \, Berkeley\, CA United States 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2263 DTSTART:20120303T190000 DTEND:20120303T220000 SUMMARY:The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Comes to Berkeley! DESCRIPTION:Come experience adventure filmmaking at its best! REI is pleased to host these special evenings of award-winning films from the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Now in its 36th year\, this international film competition is held every November in Banff\, Alberta\, Canada. This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action\, environmental\, and adventure mountain films\, submitted to the 2011 festival. A different selection of films will be shown each night. Tickets are now on sale at REI Berkeley and Concord. Will-call tickets will be available through REI Berkeley only. Ticket price: $17 for REI members\; $20 for nonmembers. REI members\, purchasing tickets at the door\, must show proof of membership to receive the member price. Doors will open half an hour before show time for open seating. A sweepstakes drawing of great prizes\, donated by Banff Tour sponsors and REI\, will be held at intermission. Proceeds will benefit UC Berkeley’s Cal Adventures Youth Scholarship Program. For additional details\, including the lists of films to be shown each night and the complete schedule of Bay Area REI screenings\, call REI Berkeley’s Customer Service Department\, (510) 527-4140 or visit www.rei.com/berkeley. For more information about the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour\, visit http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainfestival/worldtour/listings/ regions.aspx?cat=NA&location=us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:UC Berkeley - Wheeler Auditorium \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2322 DTSTART:20120303T200000 DTEND:20120303T230000 SUMMARY:Subterranean Arthouse: 3rd Annual Anniversary Benefest Weekend DESCRIPTION:Celebrate and support Berkeley’s premiere non-profit and volunteer-run performance venue. Enjoy a weekend extravaganza featuring some of the best Bay Area musicians\, dancers\, and visual artists.Tickets: $20 -100 (sliding scale)Advance tickets available at:www.BrownPaperTickets.com More information:www.SubterraneanArthouse.org Visual Art show with artists:Joanna RuckmanPaz de la CalzadaSarah Peet Thursday\, March 1Doors 8\, show 8:30Inspector Gadje/ The SkinnyA night of funky Balkan Brass and sweet Americana Friday\, March 27:30 doors\,  8 showVariety Show:An all-star collection of Bay Area musicians\, poets\, and dancersRamon and JessicaKally Price and Rob ReichSeth EisenFreddi PriceLila NelsonProfessor Burns and the Lilac FieldDaria KaufmanMamaCoatl FRIDAY NIGHT SILENT AUCTION!Dance Party with members of Mad Cow Stringband and West Nile Ramblers   Saturday\, March 37 doors\, 7:30 showGautam Tejas Ganeshan(New Directions in Indian Classical Music)Real Vocal String Quartet(amazing world folk vocal chamber)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Subterranean Art House - 2179 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2323 DTSTART:20120303T150000 DTEND:20120303T170000 SUMMARY:Instant Chorus @ Freight & Salvage! DESCRIPTION:If you like to sing outside the shower\, or are game to try\, join the Instant Chorus Saturday. March 3rd\, 3:00 - 5:00 pm!We sing uplifting songs with luscious harmonies and cool rhythms in 3- or 4-part harmony. Choose an easy or challenging part. There are solos for those who want them. All adults and children over 8 are welcome. No auditions or reading requirements. No performance. Just 2 hours of joyful singing in community. Location: Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison\, BerkeleyCost: $20 at the door or $16 if you pay in person at the Freight Box Office before Mar 2nd.Director: Betsy Blakeslee is warm and supportive. She has led choirs that performed at the UN Millennium Summit\, State of the World Forum\, and with Kitka. She directs World Harmony Chorus in Oakland (http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldHarmonyChorus?ob=0)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage - 2020 Addison St. (close to Downtown Berkeley BART)\, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2354 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120304 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=142 DTSTART:20120304T110000 DTEND:20120304T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1459 DTSTART:20120304T150000 DTEND:20120304T150000 SUMMARY:Wolfgang Holzmair DESCRIPTION:Schubert's last\, and perhaps greatest\, song-cycle\, Winterreise ("Winter's Journey")\, is certain to receive a definitive performance by this distinguished Austrian baritone. A noted lieder interpreter\, Holzmair commands a superb vocal instrument -- "rich\, sensitive and charismatic\," says the New York Times -- and can effortlessly illuminate a song with an almost conversational ease. Nowhere are these strengths more apparent than in Schubert's towering Winterreise\, written when the composer was slowly dying\, at the tragically young age of 31. Holzmair's poetic interpretation of this musical touchstone is at once a moving deathbed cry for understanding and a Romantic portrayal of a lovelorn man. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hertz Hall - College Ave at Bancroft (UC Berkeley Campus)\, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1617 DTSTART:20120304T110000 DTEND:20120304T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1719 DTSTART:20120304T093000 DTEND:20120304T123000 SUMMARY:Everything You Need To Know To Raise Backyard Chickens DESCRIPTION:From setting up a brooder for baby chicks to the essentials of water\, feed\, and coop requirements for a thriving backyard flock\, this class will prepare you for what you need to know! Having chickens is very rewarding\, but it can feel daunting to get started. We will go over many topics for setting up and keeping your chickens happy and healthy including: planning your coop\, protecting against predators\, winter time care\, best breeds\, nutrition\, and optimum egg production. Take it together with the afternoon coop building class and be ready to get your girls this spring! Instructor: Cooper Funk of Dinner Bell Farm\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1720 DTSTART:20120304T133000 DTEND:20120304T163000 SUMMARY:Chicken Coop Building DESCRIPTION:In this 3 hour workshop\, participants will learn the essential components of building a well functioning and stylish chicken coop. We will start with a slideshow of completed coops\, then discuss fundamental design elements and helpful construction techniques. We will then sketch out some design ideas and have participants leave with an idea of how to go about starting their own backyard chicken coop building project. Instructor: Matt Wolpe and Kevin McElroy of Just Fine Design\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2015 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120304 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120305 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2033 DTSTART:20120304T123000 DTEND:20120304T140000 SUMMARY:LIVE JAZZ DESCRIPTION: Stop by for creativity at the next level... Jazz Every Sunday @ Hippie Gypsy from 12:30 - 2:00 Eli Wallace Performs Jazz inspired piano improvisations. Drawing on jazz\, modern classical music\, and his own compositions\, Eli weaves together diverse musical elements. A recent graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston\, MA he is excited to become more involved in the West coast music world. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2050 DTSTART:20120304T130000 DTEND:20120304T150000 SUMMARY:27th JMF: Instrument Petting Zoo DESCRIPTION:The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsInstrument Petting ZooFREE EVENTPart of the JCC East Bay's Purim Carnival\, the Instrument Petting Zoo is where you can introduce yourself or a loved one to the wild world of the musical kingdom. Patient trainers will be on hand to guide budding young musicians. To purchase tickets and for full Festival schedule\, call us or visit our website.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC of the East Bay - 1414 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2052 DTSTART:20120304T200000 DTEND:20120304T213000 SUMMARY:27th JMF: Ben Goldberg Ensemble Performs Orphic Machine DESCRIPTION:The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsBen Goldberg Ensemble Performs Orphic MachineWORLD PREMIEREPremiere of JMF-commissioned chamber-jazz suite inspired by the poetic writings of Allen Grossman\, featuring Carla Kihlstedt\, Rob Sudduth\, Ches Smith\, Myra Melford\, Ron Miles\, Kenny Wollesen\, and Greg Cohen. Ben is a Berkeley-based clarinetist and composer\, named # 1 Rising Star Clarinetist by the 2011 Downbeat Critics Poll. To purchase tickets and for the full festival schedule\, call us or visit our website.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA United States 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2093 DTSTART:20120304T140000 DTEND:20120304T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2236 DTSTART:20120304T200000 DTEND:20120304T223000 SUMMARY:Ben Goldberg's Orphic Machine DESCRIPTION:West Coast premiere of chamber-jazz suite\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street\, \, Berkeley\, CA United States 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2264 DTSTART:20120304T190000 DTEND:20120304T220000 SUMMARY:The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Comes to Berkeley! DESCRIPTION:Come experience adventure filmmaking at its best! REI is pleased to host these special evenings of award-winning films from the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Now in its 36th year\, this international film competition is held every November in Banff\, Alberta\, Canada. This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action\, environmental\, and adventure mountain films\, submitted to the 2011 festival. A different selection of films will be shown each night. Tickets are now on sale at REI Berkeley and Concord. Will-call tickets will be available through REI Berkeley only. Ticket price: $17 for REI members\; $20 for nonmembers. REI members\, purchasing tickets at the door\, must show proof of membership to receive the member price. Doors will open half an hour before show time for open seating. A sweepstakes drawing of great prizes\, donated by Banff Tour sponsors and REI\, will be held at intermission. Proceeds will benefit UC Berkeley’s Cal Adventures Youth Scholarship Program. For additional details\, including the lists of films to be shown each night and the complete schedule of Bay Area REI screenings\, call REI Berkeley’s Customer Service Department\, (510) 527-4140 or visit www.rei.com/berkeley. For more information about the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour\, visit http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainfestival/worldtour/listings/ regions.aspx?cat=NA&location=us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:UC Berkeley - Wheeler Auditorium \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2296 DTSTART:20120304T100000 DTEND:20120304T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2355 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120304 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120305 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2016 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120306 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2262 DTSTART:20120305T190000 DTEND:20120305T210000 SUMMARY:Berkeleyside Local Business Forum: Startup Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Berkeleyside\, Berkeley's independent news website\, brings together leading figures to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the city of Berkeley for startups and how to create a climate of innovation. Is Berkeley's reputation as a business-hostile place merited? Are things changing for the better? What steps need to be taken to improve the startup climate?   Speakers include: Will Wright\, creator of The Sims and founder of Stupid Fun ClubDavid Hyman\, founder and CEO of streaming music service MOGJune Taylor\, founder and CEO of jam maker The Still RoomRauly Butler\, Senior Vice President of Retail Banking for Mechanics Bank.   Join entrepreneurs\, policy makers and local business leaders for a lively\, interactive discussion. Ample time will be devoted to questions.   The Berkeleyside Local Business Forum 2012 is organized in partnership with Mechanics Bank\, and is sponsored by GreenerPrinter.   Tickets: $10 ($5 for students and seniors)\, available through Brown Paper Tickets.   For updates\, follow Berkeleyside at www.berkeleyside.com\, on Twitter at @berkeleyside and on Facebook (Berkeleyside).\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2356 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120306 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2017 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120307 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2203 DTSTART:20120306T180000 DTEND:20120306T200000 SUMMARY:Free Quit Smoking Class DESCRIPTION:Freedom from Smoking is a free 6 session quit group provided by the City of Berkeley\, Tobacco Prevention Program.  Free acupuncture will be offered to assist in quitting.  All are welcome to attend\, please register by calling 510-981-5330 or emailing QuitNow@ci.berkeley.ca.us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:South Berkeley Senior Center - 2939 Ellis Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2237 DTSTART:20120306T200000 DTEND:20120306T223000 SUMMARY:Freight Open Mic DESCRIPTION:the Bay Area's premier open stage event\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2265 DTSTART:20120306T190000 DTEND:20120306T203000 SUMMARY:Epic Rows: Across the Atlantic & North Pacific DESCRIPTION:One of the most experienced ocean rowers in the world\, Brit Mick Dawson has logged nearly 20\,000 miles at sea. In 2009\, after two successful Atlantic Ocean crossings\, he skippered the first two-man team to row nonstop across the North Pacific Ocean\, completing the 7\,000-mile journey from Choshi\, Japan to San Francisco in 189 days\, 10 hours\, and 55 minutes. Join Mick for a digital presentation of his epic journeys. Learn about his remarkable encounters with wildlife and how he met the extraordinary challenges of extreme weather and navigation hazards. Mick will also introduce the OAR project\, his exciting upcoming row across the North Atlantic in his specially designed ocean rowing boat\, Bojangles\, for the start of the 2012 Olympics in London. For more information about Mick’s ocean rows\, visit www.oar2012.com. If you register for this free presentation at www.rei.com/berkeley\, we will hold a seat for you until the scheduled start time.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:REI Berkeley - 1338 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2357 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120307 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2386 DTSTART:20120306T193000 DTEND:20120306T210000 SUMMARY:The Nation's Eyal Press: Heeding the Voice of Conscience DESCRIPTION:Join the JCC East Bay and Eyal Press in a compelling talk about his latest book.What impels ordinary people to defy authority and convention\, sacrificing safety for the fierceness of their convictions? In his new book\, Beautiful Souls\, journalist Eyal Press (author of Absolute Convictions) weaves dramatic stories and groundbreaking research by psychologists and neuroscientists. He examines the choices and dilemmas we face when our principles collide with the loyalties we harbor and the duties we are expected to fulfill. Talk followed by signing.BEAUTIFUL SOULS: Saying No\, Breaking Ranks\, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times. A moving and revelatory exploration of what animates individual acts of courage and conscience in dangerous circumstances.Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial\, Beautiful Souls explores the flipside of the banality of evil\, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention. Through the dramatic stories of unlikely resisters who feel the flicker of conscience when trust into morally compromising situations\, Eyal Press shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not by radicals seeking to overthrow the system\, but by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC of the East Bay - 1414 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1460 DTSTART:20120307T200000 DTEND:20120307T200000 SUMMARY:An Evening with Garrison Keillor DESCRIPTION:Spend an evening with one of the all-time most successful American storytellers! The charming\, witty\, and always-entertaining Garrison Keillor is best known for his hugely popular radio program A Prairie Home Companion. The show attracts more than two million listeners on more than 450 NPR stations weekly. True to form\, Keillor will share hilarious anecdotes about growing up in the American Midwest\, the people of his beloved Lake Wobegon ("the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve")\, and "late-life fatherhood." With a wonderful\, dry sense of humor\, this modern-day Mark Twain delivers with class\, charisma\, and wisdom. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1618 DTSTART:20120307T110000 DTEND:20120307T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1801 DTSTART:20120307T151000 DTEND:20120307T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1873 DTSTART:20120307T100000 DTEND:20120307T120000 SUMMARY:Panoramic Hills Ramble DESCRIPTION:Meeting Place: NE corner of Prospect and ChanningLeader: Keith SkinnerTransit: AC buses #49\, #51BEnjoy an early spring walk in the southern hills of the historic Panoramic Hill district. The pace will be relatively moderate with a lot of uphill and steep stairs. HEAVY RAIN CANCELS. Well-behaved dogs on leashes permitted.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:NE Corner of Prospect & Channing - NE Corner of Prospect & Channing \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2018 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120308 SUMMARY:ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show DESCRIPTION:Local 123 café gallery is thrilled to offer up its expansive white walls to the burgeoning and effervescent talents of student/artists participating in ArtUp! Berkeley. ArtUp! Berkeley Group Show is comprised of students from the Young Artists Workspace (YAWS) and Westside Studio. Both of these programs have been founded by art educator Jennifer Burke. The show features the work of artists of all ages from 5 to 55++.  The artists have used a wide range of media to create a vivid collection of paper cuts\, hand-sewn portraits\, glowing metal blossoms\, and flora inspired drawings. The mission of ArtUp! Berkeley is to expand opportunities for the community to make\, experience\, and be transformed by art. By combining the work of students at YAWS and Westside Studio\, ArtUp! taps into an incredible outpouring of creative excitement\, characteristic of Berkeley’s artistic heritage and the love its residents have for art making. Local 123 is pleased to showcase the artists involved in ArtUp! and  to honor the local creative energy that has been unleashed right in our neighborhood at Westside Studio on Allston Way and at the Young Artist Workspace\, located in Totland Park on Virginia St. Enjoy this wide assortment of highly crafted work made by both youth and adults who call Berkeley home. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SHOW CONTACT: Janet Delaney/Suzy Barnard\, Curators\, Local 123 Email: curator@local123cafe.com Web: www.local123cafe.com http://www.youngartistsworkspace.org/ http://westsidestudio.squarespace.com/\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2067 DTSTART:20120307T183000 DTEND:20120307T210000 SUMMARY:Coming of Age on The Page: Writing for Young Adults DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Laura GoodeContact: laura.goode@gmail.comNumber of sessions: 8Meeting time: Wednesday nights\, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmDates: Feb. 1 - March 21Course fee: $425\, with $100 to secure a spot in the classDescription: The 2000s may well be regarded as young adult literature’s golden age\, with YA sales surpassing all other literary genres and YA subject matter veering increasingly into the risky and new. This eight-week course will serve as a primer on how to write your first (or next) novel for young adults. We’ll examine many of the questions faced by all fictioneers\, such as how to plot\, pace\, structure\, and populate an engrossing novel\, and interrogate others more particular to YA: What makes a story starring a teenager different from a book composed for teenagers? How does an author make a YA novel accessible to young readers without dumbing it down? What is the responsibility of the YA author in distinguishing between the issues young readers need to see reflected on the page\, and issues they’re not ready to handle? What role does gender play in the YA market? Why and in what ways can young adult literature appeal to both teens and adults?Week by week\, we’ll first work to build a tight synopsis of your story\, and then move into workshopping individual chapters and discussing how to sell your novel. Writers need not be published\, nor is there any prerequisite for the class apart from a passion for providing young people with great literature. Bring a story idea and the title of your favorite YA novel to the first class.Instructor Bio: Laura Goode’s debut novel for young adults\, Sister Mischief\, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011. Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, The Rumpus\, The Faster Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The New Inquiry\, Dossier\, Slope\, and other publications. Visit her website at www.lauragoode.com.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:San Francisco Writers' Grotto - 490 2nd St 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA United States 94107 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2238 DTSTART:20120307T200000 DTEND:20120307T223000 SUMMARY:Rhonda Vincent & the Rage DESCRIPTION:the Queen of bluegrass\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2358 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120308 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1461 DTSTART:20120308T200000 DTEND:20120308T200000 SUMMARY:Danu\, Traditional Music and Song from Ireland DESCRIPTION:Hailing from historic County Waterford\, Danú celebrates traditional Irish music at its very finest. The group's standing-room-only concerts -- "a vibrant mix of virtuosity\, energy\, and empathy" (Washington Post) -- have thrilled audiences worldwide and feature a lively mix of ancient music and new repertoire. For over a decade\, these virtuosos on flute\, tin whistle\, fiddle\, button accordion\, bouzouki\, and vocals (Irish and English) have performed around the globe\, winning numerous international awards and recording seven critically acclaimed albums. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1619 DTSTART:20120308T110000 DTEND:20120308T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2185 DTSTART:20120308T160000 DTEND:20120308T180000 SUMMARY:Pushing Past the Achievement Gap DESCRIPTION:Please join Mills College School of Education's Center for Urban Schools and Partnerships and the National Equity Project for a talk by renowned educator and author Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings. The words "achievement gap" are on everyone's lips‐‐teachers\, administrators\, politicians\, policymakers\, parents\, and the community. However\, perhaps what we are experiencing in our nationwide schools is not an achievement gap but an educational debt. In this discussion\, Dr. Ladson‐Billings examines how the characterization of students and their families can lead to continued deficit thinking\, and keeps us trapped in a paradigm about what students cannot do\, rather than what their personal and cultural strengths allow them to do.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Oakland High School - 1023 MacArthur Blvd \, Oakland\, CA 94610 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2239 DTSTART:20120308T200000 DTEND:20120308T223000 SUMMARY:Peter Finger DESCRIPTION:outstanding acoustic guitar\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street\, \, Berkeley\, CA United States 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2286 DTSTART:20120308T190000 DTEND:20120308T190000 SUMMARY:RENEE GIBBONS at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:RENEE GIBBONS author of Longing for Elsewhere and BILL BRODER author of Prayer for the Departed read and discuss their work.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2325 DTSTART:20120308T190000 DTEND:20120308T190000 SUMMARY:Gary Soto\, Faith Gardner\, Blossom Plum read from their work in 'Zyzzyva' DESCRIPTION:The Winter issue of Zyzzyva features Gary Soto's nonfiction piece about inadvertently angering his fellow 49er fans at Candlestick\, "The Winning Crowd\," and Faith Garner's story about a dog-walker gone badly adrift\, "Get Lost." In its Fall issue\, Zyzzyva published Blossom Plum's story "Mar\," about the relationship between a meek hotel maid and a famous guest at the hotel.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2359 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120309 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1620 DTSTART:20120309T110000 DTEND:20120309T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2240 DTSTART:20120309T200000 DTEND:20120309T223000 SUMMARY:John Reischman & the Jaybirds DESCRIPTION:bluegrass mandolin master & his top-notch band\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2360 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120309 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120310 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1462 DTSTART:20120310T200000 DTEND:20120310T200000 SUMMARY:Ton Koopman & The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir DESCRIPTION:Experience one of the supreme achievements of Western music performed by perhaps the best-known and most-recorded of all early music ensembles! Ton Koopman -- the renowned elder statesman of the authentic performance movement -- founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 1979 and imbues every performance with both boundless energy and rigorous standards of excellence and scholarship. Koopman and his distinguished forces are the supreme exponents at negotiating Bach's monumental celebration of both the joy of music making and hymn to the glory of God\, expertly challenging the Mass in B minor's balance between intimacy and grandeur. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1621 DTSTART:20120310T110000 DTEND:20120310T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2241 DTSTART:20120310T110000 DTEND:20120310T123000 SUMMARY:Patchwork Series: Orange Sherbet\, Alphabet Rockers DESCRIPTION:morning kids show\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2242 DTSTART:20120310T200000 DTEND:20120310T223000 SUMMARY:Melanie O'Reilly DESCRIPTION:innovative Celtic-jazz chanteuse\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2361 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120311 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=143 DTSTART:20120311T110000 DTEND:20120311T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1463 DTSTART:20120311T150000 DTEND:20120311T150000 SUMMARY:Murray Perahia DESCRIPTION:In a long-overdue return to Zellerbach Hall\, Cal Performances welcomes Murray Perahia\, an exceptional artist who for decades has defined the essence of the great piano virtuoso. Now at the peak of his powers\, this beloved and respected performer "may be the closest thing to a pure conduit of music -- one in which the imagination and skill of the player are entirely at the service of the composer\, not the player's ego...The soul of a poet\, the mind of a thinker\, the hands of a virtuoso: No wonder audiences love this guy" (Seattle Times). \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1622 DTSTART:20120311T110000 DTEND:20120311T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2034 DTSTART:20120311T123000 DTEND:20120311T140000 SUMMARY:LIVE JAZZ DESCRIPTION: Stop by for creativity at the next level... Jazz Every Sunday @ Hippie Gypsy from 12:30 - 2:00 Eli Wallace Performs Jazz inspired piano improvisations. Drawing on jazz\, modern classical music\, and his own compositions\, Eli weaves together diverse musical elements. A recent graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston\, MA he is excited to become more involved in the West coast music world. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2094 DTSTART:20120311T140000 DTEND:20120311T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2243 DTSTART:20120311T200000 DTEND:20120311T223000 SUMMARY:Munnelly Brothers DESCRIPTION:virtuoso irish merrymaking at its best\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2297 DTSTART:20120311T100000 DTEND:20120311T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2362 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120312 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=801 DTSTART:20120312T091500 DTEND:20120312T101500 SUMMARY:local Business networking DESCRIPTION:Local business owners meet for coffee every other Monday At Saul's Deli on shattuck ave in berkeley. http://www.saulsdeli.com/. We meet to  network and share leads with each other. The next meeting is monday Oct 10th @9:15am. All are welcome.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sauls Deli - 1475 Sahttuck ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1741 DTSTART:20120312T220000 DTEND:20120312T220000 SUMMARY:Hot Einstein Live at Disco Volante DESCRIPTION:Don't miss the brilliance of one of Oakland's hottest new bands as they present original music by lead singer and keyboardist Matt Berkeley and cover rock and R&B classics from the Beatles to Stevie Wonder to Paul Simon. Featuring vocalists Crystal Monee Hall and Karyn Paige\, Joe Bagale on drums\, Peter Canton on bass and Darrin Fox on guitar.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Disco Volante - 347 14th Street \, Oakland\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2244 DTSTART:20120312T200000 DTEND:20120312T223000 SUMMARY:Jazzschool Institute Orchestra DESCRIPTION:an evening of cutting-edge jazz\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2363 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120313 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1464 DTSTART:20120313T200000 DTEND:20120313T200000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2192 DTSTART:20120313T160000 DTEND:20120313T180000 SUMMARY:EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE Workshops for People 50+ DESCRIPTION:Maybe you're retired\, or thinking about it. Maybe you're between jobs\, or just ready for a change in your life. Whether you want to explore unmet dreams\, go back to school\, start a second career or give back to your community\, Coming of Age's "Explore Your Future" workshops include a range of proven techniques for self-discovery for people age 50+.Get inspired\, find your passion and envision your next step! These popular\, low-cost\, four-session workshops begin Tuesday\, March 13 in Berkeley.Find out more & register at www.ComingofAge.org/Bay Area or call (888) 308-1767.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC East Bay - 1414 Walnut St. \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2201 DTSTART:20120313T193000 DTEND:20120313T213000 SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men DESCRIPTION: Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote\, the mythic\, shape-shifting trickster\, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas\, yet centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge in the desert. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging\, it is above all a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. Hari Kunzru\, the author of the novels\, The Impressionist\, Transmission\, and My Revolutions\, is the recipient of many major literary awards\, including the Pushcart Prize. Granta has named him one of the best young British novelists. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His short stories and journalism have appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The New Yorker\, the London Review of Books\, Wired\, The Times of India\, and the New Statesman. In 2010 Kunzru was the keynote speaker at the European Writers Parliament in Istanbul. He currently lives in New York City. “Gods Without Men is a dazed\, erudite and unforgettable novel” David Mitchell\, author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas. Richard Wolinsky co-hosted and produced ‘Probabilities” and then “Cover to Cover” on KPFA-FM from 1977 to early 2002.  His current program of literary interviews\, “Bookwaves\,” is broadcast Thursday afternoons at 3 pm.Hosted by Richard Wolinsky$12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/224227 : 800-838-3006 or: Pegasus Books (3 locations)\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond\, DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, in SF - Modern Times Bookstore  ($15 door) Information: www.kpfa.org/events \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hillside Club - 2286 Cedar Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2204 DTSTART:20120313T180000 DTEND:20120313T200000 SUMMARY:Free Quit Smoking Class DESCRIPTION:Freedom from Smoking is a free 6 session quit group provided by the City of Berkeley\, Tobacco Prevention Program.  Free acupuncture will be offered to assist in quitting.  All are welcome to attend\, please register by calling 510-981-5330 or emailing QuitNow@ci.berkeley.ca.us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:South Berkeley Senior Center - 2939 Ellis Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2287 DTSTART:20120313T190000 DTEND:20120313T190000 SUMMARY:CHRISTINE PELOSI at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Attorney and activist CHRISTINE PELOSI comes to Berkeley to share Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates\, Staffers\, Volunteers\, and Nonprofits in which she presents leadership lessons from the campaign trail for anyone who wants to run for office\, advocate for a cause\, or win a public policy issue.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2364 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120314 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1465 DTSTART:20120314T200000 DTEND:20120314T200000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1623 DTSTART:20120314T110000 DTEND:20120314T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1802 DTSTART:20120314T151000 DTEND:20120314T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2068 DTSTART:20120314T183000 DTEND:20120314T210000 SUMMARY:Coming of Age on The Page: Writing for Young Adults DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Laura GoodeContact: laura.goode@gmail.comNumber of sessions: 8Meeting time: Wednesday nights\, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmDates: Feb. 1 - March 21Course fee: $425\, with $100 to secure a spot in the classDescription: The 2000s may well be regarded as young adult literature’s golden age\, with YA sales surpassing all other literary genres and YA subject matter veering increasingly into the risky and new. This eight-week course will serve as a primer on how to write your first (or next) novel for young adults. We’ll examine many of the questions faced by all fictioneers\, such as how to plot\, pace\, structure\, and populate an engrossing novel\, and interrogate others more particular to YA: What makes a story starring a teenager different from a book composed for teenagers? How does an author make a YA novel accessible to young readers without dumbing it down? What is the responsibility of the YA author in distinguishing between the issues young readers need to see reflected on the page\, and issues they’re not ready to handle? What role does gender play in the YA market? Why and in what ways can young adult literature appeal to both teens and adults?Week by week\, we’ll first work to build a tight synopsis of your story\, and then move into workshopping individual chapters and discussing how to sell your novel. Writers need not be published\, nor is there any prerequisite for the class apart from a passion for providing young people with great literature. Bring a story idea and the title of your favorite YA novel to the first class.Instructor Bio: Laura Goode’s debut novel for young adults\, Sister Mischief\, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011. Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, The Rumpus\, The Faster Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The New Inquiry\, Dossier\, Slope\, and other publications. Visit her website at www.lauragoode.com.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:San Francisco Writers' Grotto - 490 2nd St 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA United States 94107 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2245 DTSTART:20120314T200000 DTEND:20120314T223000 SUMMARY:Frank Fairfield DESCRIPTION:fiddle/banjo phenom and his ancient gramophone sound\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2288 DTSTART:20120314T190000 DTEND:20120314T190000 SUMMARY:Not Your Mother's Book Club at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother's Book Club presents Music and Murder and Changelings\, Oh My! Join LISSA PRICE author of Starters\, NINA LACOUR author of The Disenchantments\, and CAITLIN KITTREDGE author of The Nightmare Garden for the first NYMBC in Berkeley!\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2365 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120315 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1466 DTSTART:20120315T200000 DTEND:20120315T200000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1624 DTSTART:20120315T110000 DTEND:20120315T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2054 DTSTART:20120315T180000 DTEND:20120315T193000 SUMMARY:27th JMF: Emmanuel Witzthum: Dissolving Localities\, Berkeley/Jerusalem DESCRIPTION:The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsEmmanuel Witzthum: Dissolving Localities\, Berkeley/JerusalemFREE EVENTA composer and scholar in residence\, sponsored by UC Berkeley Music Department and The Magnes Collection\, Emmanuel has created an audiovisual dialogue between his hometown\, Jerusalem and Berkeley by interweaving recorded sights and sound.  To purchase tickets and for the full Festival schedule\, call us or visit our website.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Magnes - 2121 Allston Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2212 DTSTART:20120315T193000 DTEND:20120315T213000 SUMMARY:An Evening with Michael Klare: The Race For What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources DESCRIPTION:   The World is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- a crisis that goes beyond “peak oil” to encompass shortages of industrial metals\, critical minerals\, water\, and arable land. With all of the earth’s habitable areas already in use\, the desperate hunt for new supplies is forcing governments and corporations to the final resource frontiers\, from the Arctic to war zones to deep ocean floors. Exactly what happens as competition grows increasingly ferocious for the drastically dwindling supplies needed to run our cars\, power our homes\, manufacture our machines\, grow our food? This frenzy of extreme exploration is not only threatening the environment but also igniting new border disputes\, threatening military confrontation. The only way to avoid disaster\, argues Klare\, will be to drastically alter our patterns of consumption -- a crucial task that is already the greatest challenge of this century. Michael Klare is the author of fourteen books\, including Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency\; Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws\; Rising Powers and Shrinking Planet. As well as being Defense Correspondent for The Nation magazine\, he is a contributor to Foreign Affairs\,  the Los Angeles Times\, Current History\, Mother Jones\, Harper’s\, Scientific American\, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists\, and TomDispatch.org. At present Michael Klare is Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies. Philip Maldari\, veteran KPFA Radio broadcast journalist\, hosts a popular Sunday Morning show on 94.1FM from 9 to 11 AM.Hosted by Philip Maldari $12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/225647 t: 800-838-3006 or: Pegasus Books (3 locations)\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond\, DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, in SF - Modern Times Bookstore  ($15 door) Information: www.kpfa.org/events      KPFA benefit\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hillside Club - 2286 Cedar Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2246 DTSTART:20120315T200000 DTEND:20120315T223000 SUMMARY:Girlyman DESCRIPTION:leading edge three-part harmony folk-pop\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2266 DTSTART:20120315T190000 DTEND:20120315T203000 SUMMARY:Exploring Iceland DESCRIPTION:Imagine a “Land of Fire and Ice” -- glacier-clad volcanoes\, geysers\, lava fields\, lush pastureland\, magnificent fjords\, and waterfalls… This is Iceland\, a country of extraordinary beauty\, though less than 40\,000 square miles in size. Join photographers Mark and Cathy Pemberton for a digital presentation of their 10-day adventure\, circling the main island in a rented four-wheel-drive SUV and staying in farmers’ cottages and small fishing villages along the way. Come experience the grandeur of this geologically-rich country\, and learn about its fascinating Norse Viking heritage. If you register for this free presentation at www.rei.com/berkeley\, we will hold a seat for you until the scheduled start time.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:REI Berkeley - 1338 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2289 DTSTART:20120315T190000 DTEND:20120315T190000 SUMMARY:MARC LEWIS at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:MARC LEWIS shares Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs\, a vivid\, candid memoir that articulates exactly how drugs speak to the brain\, illuminating both the science of craving and the human condition.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2326 DTSTART:20120315T193000 DTEND:20120315T193000 SUMMARY:Cara Black reads from 'Murder at the Lanterne Rouge' DESCRIPTION:In this 12th mystery featuring the plucky PI\, Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the relationship\; René is moving way too fast\, and Aimée’s instincts tell her Meizi\, this supposed love of René’s life\, isn’t trustworthy.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2366 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120316 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2385 DTSTART:20120315T193000 DTEND:20120315T210000 SUMMARY:Joshua Walter's says: 'I'm Out!' Beatbox Performance DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss seeing Josh perform before he leaves on an international tour! Come to this all-out-humorous event with beatbox artist Joshua Walters. His eclectic combination of performances and activity as an educator in mental health has given Walters a national platform.Joshua Walters of Madhouse hythm\, (((JawVox)))\, and soon to be UnPlug\, is a performer who explores language\, creativity\, beatboxing and madness. His solo shows are a mash-up of comedy\, intimate reflection and unpredictable antics. He is a regular contributor to Snap Judgment a weekly storytelling radio show on NPR with TV broadcasts on PBS. Recently\, Walters was one of three speakers selected from a pool of 600 applicants to perform a TED Talk\, titled On Being Crazy Enough\, exploring the Bipolar Spectrum. Walters is a National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) State Speaker and in 2002\, he co-founded the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) Young Adults Chapter in\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC of the East Bay - 5811 Racine Street \, Oakland\, CA 94609 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1467 DTSTART:20120316T200000 DTEND:20120316T200000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1625 DTSTART:20120316T110000 DTEND:20120316T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2247 DTSTART:20120316T200000 DTEND:20120316T223000 SUMMARY:Solas DESCRIPTION:leading traditional and contemporary Irish music ensemble\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2290 DTSTART:20120316T190000 DTEND:20120316T190000 SUMMARY:BEN HELLWARTH at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:BEN HELLWARTH presents Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor\, the story of how the U.S. Navy program tried to develop the marine equivalent of the space station--and why the Navy pulled the plug.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2367 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120317 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1468 DTSTART:20120317T200000 DTEND:20120317T200000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1469 DTSTART:20120317T140000 DTEND:20120317T140000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1626 DTSTART:20120317T110000 DTEND:20120317T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2214 DTSTART:20120317T200000 DTEND:20120317T200000 SUMMARY:Chrisette Michele DESCRIPTION:As a teenager in the late 1990s\, Chrisette Michele led a gospel choir in her father’s church. Before long her voice became a muse for some of hip hop’s biggest stars\, and she appeared on albums by The Game\, Nas\, Jay-Z and more. By 2007 Michele had come into her own as a recording artist\, releasing her star-making debut album I Am and several hit singles including “Be OK\,” which earned her a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. She followed up with an appearance on The Roots album Rising Down and her chart-topping second CD\, Epiphany\, which confirmed her status as one of R&B’s most creative singer/songwriters. Since releasing an acclaimed hip hop-inflected album last year\, Let Freedom Reign\, Michele has taken her music in an entirely new direction with an ambitious homage to a triumvirate of jazz legends: Ella Fitzgerald\, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Tapping into her early love of jazz and American Songbook standards\, Michele displays the improvisational skills and scat chops that she’s largely kept under wraps during her rise as an R&B diva. She premieres her latest project in the spectacular Paramount Theatre\, a perfect setting in which to revisit the glories of jazz history.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Paramount Theatre - 2025 Broadway \, Oakland\, CA USA 94612 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2248 DTSTART:20120317T200000 DTEND:20120317T223000 SUMMARY:Black Brothers DESCRIPTION:Ireland's foremost family of song\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2368 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120318 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2390 DTSTART:20120317T140000 DTEND:20120317T173000 SUMMARY:Quarterstaff Stage Combat class DESCRIPTION:English Quarterstaff is a popular and accessible European martial art. This workshop will cover level one quarterstaff techniques and how to incorporate them into a theatrical scene.Classes will be on Saturday and Sunday afternoons over the course of three weeks. March 17\, 18\, 24\, 31\, and April 1  from 2 to 5:30 pm each day. Fee: $200 for the class. Optional: additional $25 for the certification testing. Location:  Berkeley Marina - when you register I'll give you specifics.Classes are taught by certified instructor and founding member of Dueling Arts San Francisco\, Andrea Weber.To register please email Andrea@duelingartssf.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Marina - \, \, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=144 DTSTART:20120318T110000 DTEND:20120318T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1470 DTSTART:20120318T150000 DTEND:20120318T150000 SUMMARY:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater DESCRIPTION:The great American choreographer Alvin Ailey famously said\, "I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." And his glorious company of dancers has done just that\, over more than 50 years of memorable performances. The company returns for its first appearances under the artistic direction of the superb choreographer Robert Battle\, the hand-picked successor to Judith Jamison\, who has said\, "choosing Robert Battle is the giant leap I want to take to ensure that this company stays vibrant in the future." Audiences can confidently expect a continuation of the great Ailey legacy\, with programs of company classics\, thrilling work new to the Bay Area\, and the legendary Revelations. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1627 DTSTART:20120318T110000 DTEND:20120318T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1721 DTSTART:20120318T133000 DTEND:20120318T163000 SUMMARY:Fermentation 101:Krauts\, Pickling\, and More! DESCRIPTION:Preserve the harvest\, strengthen your digestion and immunity\, and create intriguing flavors in your kitchen by learning the simple art of fermentation . This class is suitable for beginners and those who are already fermenting. We’ll start with basic wild fermentation and move on to various methods of fermenting with a culture. Everyone will make a simple condiment to ferment at home. Bring a knife and cutting board. Instructor: Nishanga Bliss is a licensed acupuncturist who has worked in the holistic health field for over 20 years. She lives in Berkeley where she grows\, cooks\, ferments\, savors\, teaches and writes about sustainable food.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2035 DTSTART:20120318T123000 DTEND:20120318T140000 SUMMARY:LIVE JAZZ DESCRIPTION: Stop by for creativity at the next level... Jazz Every Sunday @ Hippie Gypsy from 12:30 - 2:00 Eli Wallace Performs Jazz inspired piano improvisations. Drawing on jazz\, modern classical music\, and his own compositions\, Eli weaves together diverse musical elements. A recent graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston\, MA he is excited to become more involved in the West coast music world. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2095 DTSTART:20120318T140000 DTEND:20120318T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2249 DTSTART:20120318T200000 DTEND:20120318T223000 SUMMARY:Bruce Molsky & Ale Möller DESCRIPTION:honest folk virtuosos\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2298 DTSTART:20120318T100000 DTEND:20120318T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2369 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120319 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2370 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120319 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120320 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2391 DTSTART:20120319T200000 DTEND:20120319T223000 SUMMARY:Maggie & Suzzy Roche\, Lucy Wainwright Roche DESCRIPTION:catchy\, quircky originals\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2193 DTSTART:20120320T160000 DTEND:20120320T180000 SUMMARY:EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE Workshops for People 50+ DESCRIPTION:Maybe you're retired\, or thinking about it. Maybe you're between jobs\, or just ready for a change in your life. Whether you want to explore unmet dreams\, go back to school\, start a second career or give back to your community\, Coming of Age's "Explore Your Future" workshops include a range of proven techniques for self-discovery for people age 50+.Get inspired\, find your passion and envision your next step! These popular\, low-cost\, four-session workshops begin Tuesday\, March 13 in Berkeley.Find out more & register at www.ComingofAge.org/Bay Area or call (888) 308-1767.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC East Bay - 1414 Walnut St. \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2205 DTSTART:20120320T180000 DTEND:20120320T200000 SUMMARY:Free Quit Smoking Class DESCRIPTION:Freedom from Smoking is a free 6 session quit group provided by the City of Berkeley\, Tobacco Prevention Program.  Free acupuncture will be offered to assist in quitting.  All are welcome to attend\, please register by calling 510-981-5330 or emailing QuitNow@ci.berkeley.ca.us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:South Berkeley Senior Center - 2939 Ellis Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2250 DTSTART:20120320T200000 DTEND:20120320T223000 SUMMARY:Golden West Woodwind Quintet DESCRIPTION:resident woodwind quintet of the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2310 DTSTART:20120320T100000 DTEND:20120320T120000 SUMMARY:OLLI @Berkeley Spring 2012 Open House DESCRIPTION:OLLI @Berkeley is a year-round learning community for adults over 50. Come to the Open House and learn more about the courses\, lectures\, and social programming and hear directly from the faculty about the courses and workshops they will be teaching.Doors open at 9:30 am\, program begins at 10:00 am.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2371 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120321 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1628 DTSTART:20120321T110000 DTEND:20120321T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1803 DTSTART:20120321T151000 DTEND:20120321T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2069 DTSTART:20120321T183000 DTEND:20120321T210000 SUMMARY:Coming of Age on The Page: Writing for Young Adults DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Laura GoodeContact: laura.goode@gmail.comNumber of sessions: 8Meeting time: Wednesday nights\, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmDates: Feb. 1 - March 21Course fee: $425\, with $100 to secure a spot in the classDescription: The 2000s may well be regarded as young adult literature’s golden age\, with YA sales surpassing all other literary genres and YA subject matter veering increasingly into the risky and new. This eight-week course will serve as a primer on how to write your first (or next) novel for young adults. We’ll examine many of the questions faced by all fictioneers\, such as how to plot\, pace\, structure\, and populate an engrossing novel\, and interrogate others more particular to YA: What makes a story starring a teenager different from a book composed for teenagers? How does an author make a YA novel accessible to young readers without dumbing it down? What is the responsibility of the YA author in distinguishing between the issues young readers need to see reflected on the page\, and issues they’re not ready to handle? What role does gender play in the YA market? Why and in what ways can young adult literature appeal to both teens and adults?Week by week\, we’ll first work to build a tight synopsis of your story\, and then move into workshopping individual chapters and discussing how to sell your novel. Writers need not be published\, nor is there any prerequisite for the class apart from a passion for providing young people with great literature. Bring a story idea and the title of your favorite YA novel to the first class.Instructor Bio: Laura Goode’s debut novel for young adults\, Sister Mischief\, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011. Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, The Rumpus\, The Faster Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The New Inquiry\, Dossier\, Slope\, and other publications. Visit her website at www.lauragoode.com.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:San Francisco Writers' Grotto - 490 2nd St 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA United States 94107 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2251 DTSTART:20120321T200000 DTEND:20120321T223000 SUMMARY:Students Rock Foundation Benefit DESCRIPTION:Kevin Beadles Band and friends\, The Jolly Gibsons\, Andrea Hurley and Her Very Attractive Band\, Comedian Jacob Rubin\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2327 DTSTART:20120321T193000 DTEND:20120321T193000 SUMMARY:Ellen Ullman\, Jaron Lanier present 'By Blood' and 'You Are Not a Gadget' DESCRIPTION:Ellen Ullman and Jaron Lanier in conversation about her dark and brilliant\, intensely personal new novel\, "By Blood\," and his "You Are Not a Gadget\," as well as their mutual admiration society. Introduced by Oscar Villalon of Zyzzyva.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2372 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120322 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1629 DTSTART:20120322T110000 DTEND:20120322T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1722 DTSTART:20120322T180000 DTEND:20120322T210000 SUMMARY:Backyard Beekeeping DESCRIPTION:This popular class fills up every time we offer it\, so sign up early! Honeybees are a joy to keep in the backyard simply for their buzzing presence and\, on hot days\, the smell of honey\, wafting through the air within ten feet of the hive. They increase pollination in your yard and therefore increase your yields from fruit trees and vegetables. You may also harvest honey (gallons per year)\, beeswax\, pollen\, and propolis from the hive. We’ll cover what you need to know to feel ready to have a Langstroth backyard beehive -- how to get bees\, what equipment you need\, where to put the hive\, how to extract honey and upkeep the hive. There will be local honey to try. Instructor: Jennifer Radtke of BioFuel Oasis\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2057 DTSTART:20120322T190000 DTEND:20120322T203000 SUMMARY:27th JMF: Bustan Quartet DESCRIPTION:The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsBustan Quartet Reunited members of an internationally acclaimed Arab and Jewish ensemble from Israel\, Taiseer Elias (oud)\, Amir Milstein (flute)\, Zohar Fresco (percussion)\, and Emmanuel Mann(bass)\, draw on Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions\, jazz and improvisation to create a stunningly original world of sound. To purchase tickets and for the full Festival schedule\, call or visit our website.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Magnes - 2121 Allston Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2252 DTSTART:20120322T200000 DTEND:20120322T223000 SUMMARY:John Gorka DESCRIPTION:energetic acoustic rockRose Cousins opens\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2267 DTSTART:20120322T190000 DTEND:20120322T203000 SUMMARY:Great Canyon Hikes of the Colorado Plateau DESCRIPTION:Since 2000\, Ken and Marcia Powers have walked most of our country’s premier long-distance trails -- Pacific Crest Trail\, Continental Divide Trail\, Appalachian Trail\, American Discovery Trail\, Grand Enchantment Trail\, Arizona National Scenic Trail\, and more. Join this intrepid duo for a digital presentation of their latest adventure: exploring the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Ken and Marcia will take you on some canyon hiking classics\, including a backcountry loop in Bryce Canyon National Park\, a rim-to-rim day hike in Grand Canyon National Park\, and a photo tour of Antelope Canyon. They’ll also show you the rich hues and fantastic sculpted walls of some of the more challenging and remote slot/river canyons\, such as Round Valley Draw\, Dark Canyon\, Buckskin Gulch\, and Paria Canyon -- all in Utah. Learn what it takes to safely explore the red rock backcountry\, where drinking water is scarce\, rain leads to quicksand and flash floods\, and temperature swings are the norm. If you register for this free presentation at www.rei.com/berkeley\, we will hold a seat for you until the scheduled start time.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:REI Berkeley - 1338 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2328 DTSTART:20120322T193000 DTEND:20120322T193000 SUMMARY:Tom Christensen presents '1616: The World in Motion' DESCRIPTION:Christensen illuminates this extravagant age by focusing on a single riotous year. Woven with color images and artwork from the period\, "1616" tells the surprising tales of the men and women who set the world on its tumultuous course toward modernity.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2373 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120322 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120323 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2384 DTSTART:20120322T193000 DTEND:20120322T210000 SUMMARY:Do Not Destroy: Trees\, Art\, and Jewish Thought with the CJM DESCRIPTION:Join the JCC East Bay for a presentation by the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Do Not Destroy: Trees\, Art\, and Jewish Thought\, an exhibition on view at the CJM through May 28\, 2012. Do Not Destroy: Trees\, Art\, and Jewish Thought is an exciting opportunity to explore the subject of the tree in Jewish tradition through the lens of contemporary artists who enable us to see the world in new ways and to encourage us to find fresh meaning in tradition. The tree is a universally potent symbol with particular significance in Judaism\, especially now as global environmental concerns have begun to impact contemporary Jewish practice.Attendees receive a discount code for 2-for-1 tickets to the Contemporary Jewish Museum.  It’s a wonderful way to check out an exhibit in advance!Buy tickets online at www.brownpapertickets.com.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC of the East Bay - 1414 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1630 DTSTART:20120323T110000 DTEND:20120323T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2168 DTSTART:20120323T200000 DTEND:20120323T220000 SUMMARY:TONY KUSHNER’S “Terminating” DESCRIPTION:The Psychotherapy Institute's 40th Anniversary Benefit featuring Tony Kushnerand a panel of noted Bay Area clinicians:Joan Sarnat\, Leslye Russell\, Sam Gerson An evening of theater and conversation exploring the psychological themes in the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Angels in America.”Tony Kushner’s short play "Terminating" will be presented in a staged reading\, following by a discussion with the author and panelists. The evening will conclude with Tony Kushner in conversation with Mark Bronnenberg.“If you don’t know where you’re going\, can you move? . . . And do you even have a choice\, or do you just dive in and work it out as you’re going? . . . The fundamental question is: Are we made by history or do we make history -- and the answer is yes.” Tony Kushner\, 1995 Mother Jones interview“The task of my life is\, in part\, to try to understand it”Tony Kushner to Charlie Rose (12/1/93)“One of the most linguistically luxuriant dramatists of our time…Mr. Kushner makes words sing\, swoon and somersault as no other living American playwright does.” Ben Brantley\, NY Times\, June 5\, 2011“Daring and Dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time” Review of "Angels in America\," Newsweek\, 1993Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day\; Angels in America\, Parts One and Two\; Slavs!\; Homebody/Kabul\; Caroline\, or Change\, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori\; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille's The Illusion\, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk\, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children\; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels In America\, and Steven Spielberg's Munich. His books include Brundibar\, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak\; The Art of Maurice Sendak\, 1980 to the Present\; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict\, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pultizer Prize\, two Tony Awards\, three Obie Awards\, two Evening Standard Awards\, an Olivier Award\, an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination\, among other honors. In 2008\, he was the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He lives in Manhattan with his husband\, Mark Harris.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Repertory Theatre - 2015 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2197 DTSTART:20120323T200000 DTEND:20120323T220000 SUMMARY:Tony Kushner Benefit DESCRIPTION:An evening of theater and conversation exploring the psychological themes in the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America."Tony Kushner's short play "Terminating" will be presented in a staged reading\, following by a discussion with the author and noted bay area clinicians: Sam Gerson\, Ph.D.\, Leslye Russell\, MFT\, and Joan Sarnat\, Ph.D.  The evening will conclude with Tony Kushner in conversation with Mark Bronnenberg.A benefit for The Psychotherapy Institute a non-profit organization celebrating its 40th AnniversaryTickets: $35\, $55\, $65 "One of the most linguistically luxuriant dramatists of our time...Mr. Kushner makes words sing\, swoon and somersault as no other living American playwright does." Ben Brantley\, NY Times\, June 5\, 2011Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day\; Angels in America\, Parts One and Two\; Slavs!\; Homebody/Kabul\; Caroline\, or Change\, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori\; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille's The Illusion\, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk\, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children\; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibar by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels In America\, and Steven Spielberg's Munich. His books include Brundibar\, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak\; The Art of Maurice Sendak\, 1980 to the Present\; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict\, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pultizer Prize\, two Tony Awards\, three Obie Awards\, two Evening Standard Awards\, an Olivier Award\, an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination\, among other honors. In 2008\, he was the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He lives in Manhattan with his husband\, Mark Harris.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Repertory Theatre - 2015 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2329 DTSTART:20120323T193000 DTEND:20120323T193000 SUMMARY:Bart Schneider reads from 'Nameless Dame' DESCRIPTION:The Russian River Valley -- laid-back\, marijuana-steeped\, and off-the-grid -- is the backdrop for Schneider’s new mystery featuring the tough and dogged detective Augie Boyer.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2374 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120324 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1471 DTSTART:20120324T200000 DTEND:20120324T200000 SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion DESCRIPTION:The preeminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time\, Zakir Hussain delivers brilliant performances that have established him as a national treasure in his native India and as one of the world's most esteemed and influential musicians\, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity\, founded in formidable knowledge and study. Masters of Percussion\, an outgrowth of Hussain's memorable tours with his father\, the legendary Ustad Allarakha\, has enjoyed successful tours in the West since 1996\, and is a particular favorite with Cal Performances audiences. Joining the 2012 are Fazal Qureshi\, tabla & kanjira\; Rakesh Chaurasia\, bansuri (bamboo flute)\; Dilshad Khan\, sarangi\; Navin Sharma\, dholak\; Abbos Kosimov\, doyra\; and the Meitei Pung Cholom Performing Troupe (dancing drummers of Manipur). \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1491 DTSTART:20120324T200000 DTEND:20120324T200000 SUMMARY:David Finckel\, cello & Wu Han\, piano DESCRIPTION:"America's power couple of chamber music" (Wall Street Journal) returns following their unforgettable Beethoven cycle last season. Among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today\, David Finckel and Wu Han trace the genesis of the Romantic cello sonata from its birth to full flowering: from Schubert\, whose work foreshadows the developments to come\, through the unbridled emotion of both Brahms and Schumann\, who took the Romantic era to its heights. Program: Schubert: Sonata in A minor\, (Arpeggione) • Brahms: Sonata in E minor\, Op. 38 • Schumann: Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano\, Op. 70 • Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major\, Op. 99 \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1631 DTSTART:20120324T110000 DTEND:20120324T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1874 DTSTART:20120324T100000 DTEND:20120324T130000 SUMMARY:West Side Whimsy Walk - San Francisco DESCRIPTION:Meeting Place: Steps next to 141 Junipero Serra Blvd.\, San FranciscoLeader: Jacquie Proctor\, Author and SF City GuideTransit: BART to SF\, then Muni M outbound to the corner of West Portal and St. Francis CircleJoin us as the author of "Bay Area Beauty: The Artistry of Harold G. Stoner\, Architect" leads us to this Englishman’s unique creations in Balboa Terrace\, St. Francis Wood\, and Lakeside. From Art Deco landmarks to storybook cottages and Spanish castles\, see how Stoner waved his magic wand throughout West of Twin Peaks and beyond. Learn more about the book and Stoner at www.jacquieproctor.com/haroldstoner RAIN CANCELS. No dogs\, please.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:141 Junipero Serra Blvd.\, San Francisco - 141 Junipero Serra Blvd. \, San Francisco\, CA USA 94127 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2253 DTSTART:20120324T200000 DTEND:20120324T223000 SUMMARY:Cheryl Wheeler DESCRIPTION:brilliant wit & beautifully crafted songs\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2375 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120325 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=145 DTSTART:20120325T110000 DTEND:20120325T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1492 DTSTART:20120325T150000 DTEND:20120325T150000 SUMMARY:Richard Goode\, piano DESCRIPTION:Hailed for music making of tremendous emotional power and sensitivity\, Richard Goode is acknowledged as a master interpreter of Bach\, Beethoven\, Chopin\, Mozart\, and Schubert. A particular favorite of his colleagues\, Goode probes the inner reaches of works\, infusing every measure with the utmost expressivity\, making his musicianship an exciting combination of grandness and humility\, boldness and depth -- the boldness of the mind\, the depth of the heart. Always a hit at Cal Performances\, he returns by popular demand. Program: Mozart: Fantasy in C minor\, K475 • Sonata in B-flat major\, K281 • Sonata in C minor\, K457 • Chopin: Sonata in B-flat minor\, Op. 35 • additional Chopin works TBA \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1632 DTSTART:20120325T110000 DTEND:20120325T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2036 DTSTART:20120325T123000 DTEND:20120325T140000 SUMMARY:LIVE JAZZ DESCRIPTION: Stop by for creativity at the next level... Jazz Every Sunday @ Hippie Gypsy from 12:30 - 2:00 Eli Wallace Performs Jazz inspired piano improvisations. Drawing on jazz\, modern classical music\, and his own compositions\, Eli weaves together diverse musical elements. A recent graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston\, MA he is excited to become more involved in the West coast music world. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2059 DTSTART:20120325T140000 DTEND:20120325T210000 SUMMARY:27th JMF: Holy Harmony DESCRIPTION:The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presentsHoly Harmony Basya Schechter of Pharaoh's Daughter Performs Songs of WonderMusical Settings to the Poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Babel AshkenazFrank London\, of the Grammy-winning  group\, the Klezmatics\, and Yair Dalal ( Israeli violinist and oud master of Iraqi Background) join Middle Eastern and Ashkenazi melodies\, with Dror Sinai and more. Bustan QuartetReunited members of an internationally acclaimed Arab and Jewish ensemble from Israel\, Taisser Elias (oud)\, Amir Milstein (flute)\, Zohar Fresco (percussion)\, and Emmanuel Mann (bass)\, draw on Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions\, jazz improvisation to create a stunningly original world of sound. To purchase tickets and for the full festival schedule\, call us or visit our website.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Congregation Sherith Israel - 2266 California Street \, San Francisco\, CA 94115-2814 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2096 DTSTART:20120325T140000 DTEND:20120325T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2254 DTSTART:20120325T200000 DTEND:20120325T223000 SUMMARY:Susan Werner\, David Wilcox DESCRIPTION:innovative singer-songwriters\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2299 DTSTART:20120325T100000 DTEND:20120325T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2376 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120326 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=802 DTSTART:20120326T091500 DTEND:20120326T101500 SUMMARY:local Business networking DESCRIPTION:Local business owners meet for coffee every other Monday At Saul's Deli on shattuck ave in berkeley. http://www.saulsdeli.com/. We meet to  network and share leads with each other. The next meeting is monday Oct 10th @9:15am. All are welcome.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sauls Deli - 1475 Sahttuck ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2255 DTSTART:20120326T200000 DTEND:20120326T223000 SUMMARY:Classical at the Freight: San Francisco Brass Quintet DESCRIPTION:an informal and invigorating evening of chamber music\, with Ben Simon\, host\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2377 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120326 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120327 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2194 DTSTART:20120327T160000 DTEND:20120327T180000 SUMMARY:EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE Workshops for People 50+ DESCRIPTION:Maybe you're retired\, or thinking about it. Maybe you're between jobs\, or just ready for a change in your life. Whether you want to explore unmet dreams\, go back to school\, start a second career or give back to your community\, Coming of Age's "Explore Your Future" workshops include a range of proven techniques for self-discovery for people age 50+.Get inspired\, find your passion and envision your next step! These popular\, low-cost\, four-session workshops begin Tuesday\, March 13 in Berkeley.Find out more & register at www.ComingofAge.org/Bay Area or call (888) 308-1767.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC East Bay - 1414 Walnut St. \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2206 DTSTART:20120327T180000 DTEND:20120327T200000 SUMMARY:Free Quit Smoking Class DESCRIPTION:Freedom from Smoking is a free 6 session quit group provided by the City of Berkeley\, Tobacco Prevention Program.  Free acupuncture will be offered to assist in quitting.  All are welcome to attend\, please register by calling 510-981-5330 or emailing QuitNow@ci.berkeley.ca.us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:South Berkeley Senior Center - 2939 Ellis Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2256 DTSTART:20120327T193000 DTEND:20120327T223000 SUMMARY:West Coast Songwriters Competition DESCRIPTION:professionally judged original songs contest\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2378 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120328 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=64 DTSTART:20120328T180000 DTEND:20120328T210000 SUMMARY:Rooted and Rising DESCRIPTION: Rooted and Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions SalonThe New Leaders Initative is launching a new event series\, called Rooted and Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions Salon.These events\, geared towards youth ages 13-25\, are all about orienting participants towards new ways of thinking about age-old environmental and social justice 'problems'.This is an RSVP ONLY event\, so complete the survey below and find out more about this exciting series:http://eii.org/bya/ rootedandrisingOur inagural event\, "Waste Not\, Want Not" begins at 6:15pm on August 24th. "Waste Not\, Want Not" will bring together Dianna Cohen from the Plastics Pollution Coalition\, Alex Lin - 2007 Brower Youth Award Winner\, and Bridgett Luther of Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation\, to discuss solutions to the problem of waste in our society.Be sure to complete the survey as soon as possible to reserve your spot at the first Rooted and Rising! Space is *highly* limited\, as we feel that smaller groups\, comprised mostly of youth under the age of 25\, will give more opportunity for interaction\, idea-sharing and networking.We will provide food\, drink and merriment but we need you to RSVP to reserve your spot by completing the survey:http://eii.org/bya/ rootedandrisingFind us on Facebook: https://www. facebook.com/event.php?eid= 234364523268596#!/event.php? eid=124345120990617For any questions\, contact bya@earthisland.org.See you at Rooted and Rising! \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:David Brower Center - 2150 Allston Way\, Suite 460 (4th Floor) \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1633 DTSTART:20120328T110000 DTEND:20120328T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1804 DTSTART:20120328T151000 DTEND:20120328T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2379 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120329 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1634 DTSTART:20120329T110000 DTEND:20120329T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2257 DTSTART:20120329T200000 DTEND:20120329T223000 SUMMARY:Tom Paxton DESCRIPTION:Lifetime Grammy Award winning traditional & topical folk\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2268 DTSTART:20120329T190000 DTEND:20120329T203000 SUMMARY:Bay Area Backpacking Destinations: Ten to Begin DESCRIPTION:Come explore the wilderness in your backyard\; the San Francisco Bay Area offers a rich variety of backpacking destinations\, perfect for all ages and abilities. Join avid hiker and author Jim Rogers for a digital presentation of 10 great backpacking trips within a one- to two-hour drive of anywhere in the Bay Area. As Jim takes you from Point Reyes National Seashore to the Ohlone Wilderness\, and to Butano and Henry Coe State Parks\, and more\, he’ll introduce you to the remarkable natural and historic features you’ll discover as you explore on foot. Learn where to find majestic redwoods\, rare birds\, spectacular vistas\, and waterfalls. Find out about essentials for planning your trip\, including reservations\, facilities\, and resources for gear and know-how. Following the program\, Jim will sign copies of his book\, “Masters on the Trail: A Backpack Primer for Folks over Fifty”. If you register for this free presentation at www.rei.com/berkeley\, we will hold a seat for you until the scheduled start time.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:REI Berkeley - 1338 San Pablo Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2330 DTSTART:20120329T193000 DTEND:20120329T193000 SUMMARY:Joanna Macy presents 'Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy' DESCRIPTION:Most books addressing global issues focus on either our dire problems or grand-scale solutions. Authors Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone focus instead on equipping readers with a transformational mindset.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2380 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120330 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2387 DTSTART:20120329T193000 DTEND:20120329T213000 SUMMARY:Film Screening: Torn DESCRIPTION:Presented with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival2011\, Israel | Director: Ronit KerstnerLanguages: Hebrew\, w/ Eng. SubtitlesCan a person be a practicing Jew and a Catholic priest? Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel’s mother left him as a baby on the doorstep of a Polish gentile family in 1943. She told her neighbor\, “You say you are religious\, so take him in the name of Jesus whom you so believe in.” These words were prescient\, for Jakub joined a seminary at 18 and began a lifelong journey in the priesthood. At 35\, Jakub’s Polish mother revealed to him that he was Jewish. He continued working as a priest and teaching at the Catholic University in Lublin until age 67\, when he was moved to try living in Israel. Encouraged by Michael Schudrich\, the Chief Rabbi of Poland\, Jakub journeys to Israel where his dual identity as a Polish Jew and a Catholic priest confounds many of those he encounters. Ronit Kertsner’s (Menachem and Fred\, SFJFF 2009) heartfelt and insightful documentary captures a poignant search for identity while raising questions about who is a Jew and what being Jewish means.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC of the East Bay - 1414 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1494 DTSTART:20120330T200000 DTEND:20120330T200000 SUMMARY:Baltimore Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Marin Alsop is a champion of modern music and here leads her acclaimed orchestra in several American masterworks\, including music by two of today's leading American composers: Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman\, a brilliant response to the Aaron Copland classic (also on the program)\; and Jennifer Higdon's astonishing Percussion Concerto\, featuring the "dazzling" (The Guardian\, London) Colin Currie. Higdon scored double triumphs in 2010\, taking home both the Pulitzer Prize in Music and a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (for the Percussion Concerto). Program: Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man • Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman • Higdon: Percussion Concerto • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Playhouse - Bancroft &Telegraph Ave (UC Berkeley Campus)\, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1635 DTSTART:20120330T110000 DTEND:20120330T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2258 DTSTART:20120330T200000 DTEND:20120330T223000 SUMMARY:Junius Courtney Big Band DESCRIPTION:the swingin'est band's 50th anniversary concert\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2331 DTSTART:20120330T193000 DTEND:20120330T193000 SUMMARY:Robin Grossinger\, Ruth Askevold present 'Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas' DESCRIPTION:A dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley from the early 1800s onward -- a forgotten land of brilliant wildflower fields\, lush wetlands\, and grand oak savannas -- the "Atlas" provides a fascinating new perspective on this iconic landscape\, showing the natural heritage that has enabled the agricultural success of the region today.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's - 2904 College Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94705 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2381 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120331 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1495 DTSTART:20120331T120000 DTEND:20120331T130000 SUMMARY:Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Richard Einhorn's Voices of Lights DESCRIPTION:Classic filmmaking and superb music combine for an unforgettable season highlight! Close watchers of the American symphony orchestra scene know that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) stands "poised to jolt the American orchestral world" (New York Times) under the inspired direction of Marin Alsop\, the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. In this Cal Performances debut engagement\, the BSO performs in Voices of Light\, which merges Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc with a live performance of Richard Einhorn's haunting and profound score. Renée Falconetti's portrayal of Joan of Arc has been ranked among the 100 finest film performances ever\, and Einhorn's music hailed "a moving score...sublimely matching one of the great films of all time" (Chicago Sun). This acclaimed evening of music-theater has thrilled sold-out houses from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the Kennedy Center and Davies Symphony Hall. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1636 DTSTART:20120331T110000 DTEND:20120331T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2259 DTSTART:20120331T200000 DTEND:20120331T223000 SUMMARY:The Waybacks DESCRIPTION:genre-hopping newgrass with chops to spare\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - 2020 Addison Street \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2292 DTSTART:20120331T140000 DTEND:20120331T140000 SUMMARY:A Special April Fool's Story Time at Books Inc. in Berkeley DESCRIPTION:A Special April Fool's Story Time!  Learn the coolest\, funniest\, silliest\, most prankiest pranks from the master.  ANNIE BARROWS\, author of the beloved Ivy and Bean series will read from the newest entry No News is Good News and will share everything you need to know for the best April Fool's Day ever!\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Books Inc. - 1760 4th St. \, Berkeley\, CA US 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2382 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120401 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=146 DTSTART:20120401T110000 DTEND:20120401T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1496 DTSTART:20120401T120000 DTEND:20120401T120000 SUMMARY:Jonathan Biss DESCRIPTION:Young artists often show promise\, but rarely do they emerge as major talents as quickly and fully as American pianist Jonathan Biss. He is noted\, in particular\, for his intriguing programs and musical intelligence\, qualities on full display in the program he brings to Berkeley. Performing both classic masterworks -- including Beethoven's immortal Moonlight Sonata -- and exciting new music\, Biss clearly shows why the Toronto Globe and Mail calls him "one of the most striking North American pianists of the new generation. Program: Beethoven: Sonata in C minor\, Op. 10\, No. 1 • Sonata in C-sharp minor\, Op. 27\, No. 2\, (Moonlight) • Sonata in E-flat major\, Op. 81a\, (Les Adieux) • Janáček: In the Mists • David Ludwig: New Work \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hertz Hall - College Ave at Bancroft (UC Berkeley Campus)\, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1637 DTSTART:20120401T110000 DTEND:20120401T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2037 DTSTART:20120401T123000 DTEND:20120401T140000 SUMMARY:LIVE JAZZ DESCRIPTION: Stop by for creativity at the next level... Jazz Every Sunday @ Hippie Gypsy from 12:30 - 2:00 Eli Wallace Performs Jazz inspired piano improvisations. Drawing on jazz\, modern classical music\, and his own compositions\, Eli weaves together diverse musical elements. A recent graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston\, MA he is excited to become more involved in the West coast music world. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hippie Gypsy - 1797-A Shattuck Ave \, Berkeley \, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2097 DTSTART:20120401T140000 DTEND:20120401T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2300 DTSTART:20120401T100000 DTEND:20120401T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2383 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120402 SUMMARY:TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape DESCRIPTION:In these stirring abstract process paintings\, Jenny Bloomfield\, Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes present landscape-inspired work that mines the place where materials shift and change\, and horizons form and dissolve. TERRAIN offers meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime. Related Programs on Saturdays @ 4pmFeburary 18: Peter Selz booksigning "A Life in Art" March 3: Kenneth Baker on The Lightning FieldMarch 17: Spring Artist Lecture Series: Tom Holland Please visit www.berkeleyartcenter.org for program details\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center - 1275 Walnut Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2195 DTSTART:20120403T160000 DTEND:20120403T180000 SUMMARY:EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE Workshops for People 50+ DESCRIPTION:Maybe you're retired\, or thinking about it. Maybe you're between jobs\, or just ready for a change in your life. Whether you want to explore unmet dreams\, go back to school\, start a second career or give back to your community\, Coming of Age's "Explore Your Future" workshops include a range of proven techniques for self-discovery for people age 50+.Get inspired\, find your passion and envision your next step! These popular\, low-cost\, four-session workshops begin Tuesday\, March 13 in Berkeley.Find out more & register at www.ComingofAge.org/Bay Area or call (888) 308-1767.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:JCC East Bay - 1414 Walnut St. \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2207 DTSTART:20120403T180000 DTEND:20120403T200000 SUMMARY:Free Quit Smoking Class DESCRIPTION:Freedom from Smoking is a free 6 session quit group provided by the City of Berkeley\, Tobacco Prevention Program.  Free acupuncture will be offered to assist in quitting.  All are welcome to attend\, please register by calling 510-981-5330 or emailing QuitNow@ci.berkeley.ca.us.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:South Berkeley Senior Center - 2939 Ellis Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1638 DTSTART:20120404T110000 DTEND:20120404T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1805 DTSTART:20120404T151000 DTEND:20120404T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1639 DTSTART:20120405T110000 DTEND:20120405T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2317 DTSTART:20120405T190000 DTEND:20120405T210000 SUMMARY:Rick's Supper Club-Bocanova DESCRIPTION:Beginning Thursday\, March 1\, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.\, Owner/Chef Rick Hackett and Bocanova invite you to experience a special dinner series in partnership with several of the East Bay’s most notable winemakers. A four-course family-style menu\, priced at $58.00\, will include wine pairings and a signature cocktail\, created by Bar Manager Stella Davies. Served in Bocanova’s intimate private dining room\, each of “Rick’s Supper Club” dinners will provide guests the opportunity to interact with both the featured winemaker and Rick in a convivial setting. Each month\, “Rick’s Supper Club” menu will be crafted to complement a specific East Bay produced wine. For the first of the dinner series\, Rick welcomes extraordinary winemaker and long-time friend\, Steve Edmunds. The supper menu will feature uniquely created dishes such as Ahi Tuna Crudo with caper\, tomatillo\, chiles\, and raisins\; Sea Green and Quinoa Chowder\; Achiote Marinated Turkey Breast with jalapeno and mint salsa\; and Leche Fritas with lucuma ice cream. Bocanova’s Private Dining Room55 Webster Street (in Jack London Square)Oakland\, CA 94607510 .444.1233www.bocanova.com Price:                         $58.00 per person for a signature cocktail and a four-course family-style menu with paired wines\; exclusive of tax and gratuity\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Bocanova - 55 Webster St Jack London Square\, Oaklan\, CA 94607 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=280 DTSTART:20120406T200000 DTEND:20120406T220000 SUMMARY:First Friday Neighborhood Square Dance DESCRIPTION:Live music\, live calling\, great dancing every first Friday of the month. All levels welcome. All dances are taught. Fun is had.Music by the Squirrelly Stringband. Calling by Jordan Ruyle\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library - 6501 Telegraph Ave \, Oakland\, CA 94609 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1640 DTSTART:20120406T110000 DTEND:20120406T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1641 DTSTART:20120407T110000 DTEND:20120407T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1916 DTSTART:20120407T100000 DTEND:20120407T110000 SUMMARY:TRANSITION BERKELEY'S 1ST SATURDAY SWAP DESCRIPTION:TRANSITION BERKELEY'S  1ST SATURDAY SWAP January 7th\, 10 - 11 am Exchange books\, clothing\, crops and ideas at our new monthly swaps - the first Saturdays\, 10-11 a.m. Transition Berkeley's successful Crop Swap\, in which neighbors happily shared produce and seedlings they raised this past summer\, has expanded to include books and clothing for children and adults. Everyone is invited to bring books and/or clothing that are clean and in good condition. Trade jeans for sweaters\, Shakespeare for Michael Pollan. Go home with a new outfit and a new read. If you have a large amount of clothing or books to share please bring a table to display them on.  We hope everyone will start planting vegetable seeds and bring seedlings to swap for winter gardens. Let's swap ideas too\, for other ways to make our community sustainable\, and self sufficient while we have more fun together. if you have questions or to volunteer to help with the swaps\, contact Carole Bennett-Simmons\,  caroleannbs@yahoo.com. Rain will cancel until we find an alternate site for rainy days. Location is the same:  Ohlone Greenway at Delaware and Sacramento\, right across from the North Berkeley BART Station.  \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ohlone Greenway - Sacramento and Delaware Streets \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=147 DTSTART:20120408T110000 DTEND:20120408T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1642 DTSTART:20120408T110000 DTEND:20120408T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1723 DTSTART:20120408T120000 DTEND:20120408T130000 SUMMARY:Grow Oyster Mushrooms on Recycled Coffee Grounds DESCRIPTION:Learn about the benefits of mushrooms and the amazing world of fungi. We’ll take a tour of the Back to the Roots mushroom facility in Oakland and learn how they grown oyster mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds from Peet’s Coffee. Then\, we’ll take it down to a DIY scale with hands-on sterilizing and innoculation of coffee grounds. Each student will get a mushroom starter that will grow mushrooms within 2 weeks at home. Save up your coffee grounds and bring them to the class! Instructor: Ryan Ellis\, Back to the Roots\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sticky Art Lab - 1682 University Ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94703 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2098 DTSTART:20120408T140000 DTEND:20120408T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2301 DTSTART:20120408T100000 DTEND:20120408T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=803 DTSTART:20120409T091500 DTEND:20120409T101500 SUMMARY:local Business networking DESCRIPTION:Local business owners meet for coffee every other Monday At Saul's Deli on shattuck ave in berkeley. http://www.saulsdeli.com/. We meet to  network and share leads with each other. The next meeting is monday Oct 10th @9:15am. All are welcome.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sauls Deli - 1475 Sahttuck ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1643 DTSTART:20120411T110000 DTEND:20120411T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1806 DTSTART:20120411T151000 DTEND:20120411T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1644 DTSTART:20120412T110000 DTEND:20120412T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1742 DTSTART:20120412T220000 DTEND:20120412T220000 SUMMARY:Hot Einstein Live at Disco Volante DESCRIPTION:Don't miss the brilliance of one of Oakland's hottest new bands as they present original music by lead singer and keyboardist Matt Berkeley and cover rock and R&B classics from the Beatles to Stevie Wonder to Paul Simon. Featuring vocalists Crystal Monee Hall and Karyn Paige\, Joe Bagale on drums\, Peter Canton on bass and Darrin Fox on guitar.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Disco Volante - 347 14th Street \, Oakland\, CA CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1497 DTSTART:20120413T200000 DTEND:20120413T200000 SUMMARY:Quatuor Mosaiques DESCRIPTION:The preeminent period-instrument quartet performing today\, Quatuor Mosaïques has won acclaim for its use of traditional gut-stringed instruments\, which -- in combination with their celebrated musicianship -- has cultivated the group's signature full-bodied\, sonorous\, and captivating sound. The ensemble's great accomplishment is not only in expressing "authenticity" but in creating work that is a living link to the great European quartet tradition. Program: Haydn: Quartet in B-flat major\, Op. 76\, No. 4\, (Sunrise) • Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 2 in A minor\, Op. 13 • Schubert: Quartet in A minor\, D. 804\, Op. 29\, (Rosamunde) \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley - 2345 Channing Way at Dana \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1645 DTSTART:20120413T110000 DTEND:20120413T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1646 DTSTART:20120414T110000 DTEND:20120414T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=148 DTSTART:20120415T110000 DTEND:20120415T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1647 DTSTART:20120415T110000 DTEND:20120415T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2099 DTSTART:20120415T140000 DTEND:20120415T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2302 DTSTART:20120415T100000 DTEND:20120415T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1648 DTSTART:20120418T110000 DTEND:20120418T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1807 DTSTART:20120418T151000 DTEND:20120418T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1498 DTSTART:20120419T200000 DTEND:20120419T200000 SUMMARY:Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 DESCRIPTION:The heir to a powerful musical legacy\, Seun Kuti lights up the stage in a rousing celebration of Afrobeat music! Kuti's father Fela was the legendary Nigerian musician\, composer\, and political maverick\, and the musical form he helped create is now more popular than ever\, in part due to the success of the smash 2010 Broadway hit FELA!. A musical powerhouse in his own right\, Kuti continues to spread this ferocious groove\, and he comes to Cal Performances fronting Fela's legendary band\, Egypt 80. "The real deal...a natural\, with all the sexy charisma you might have hoped for...[the group] sounded terrific\, at times better than they had with Fela towards the end\, taking the soul of Afrobeat somewhere new" (The Guardian\, London). \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1649 DTSTART:20120419T110000 DTEND:20120419T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1650 DTSTART:20120420T110000 DTEND:20120420T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1651 DTSTART:20120421T110000 DTEND:20120421T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=149 DTSTART:20120422T110000 DTEND:20120422T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1499 DTSTART:20120422T150000 DTEND:20120422T150000 SUMMARY:Musicians from Marlboro DESCRIPTION:Discerning music lovers know that for "the most exciting chamber music in the United States" (Time magazine)\, there is no better ensemble than the Musicians from Marlboro. Now celebrating its 47th season\, the acclaimed touring program offers not only joyous performances featuring unusual repertoire\, but also invaluable experience to emerging artists. The group's Berkeley concert spotlights an array of distinguished musicians\, including Peter Wiley\, cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet\, and the brilliant young Russian pianist Anna Polonsky -- a personal favorite of Marlboro artistic directors Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida -- who plays "with sweep\, color and authority...the entire performance was vibrant and exciting" (New York Times).Program: Haydn: Piano Trio • Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor\, Op. 13 • Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor\, Op. 57 \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hertz Hall - College Ave at Bancroft (UC Berkeley Campus)\, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1652 DTSTART:20120422T110000 DTEND:20120422T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2100 DTSTART:20120422T140000 DTEND:20120422T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2303 DTSTART:20120422T100000 DTEND:20120422T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=804 DTSTART:20120423T091500 DTEND:20120423T101500 SUMMARY:local Business networking DESCRIPTION:Local business owners meet for coffee every other Monday At Saul's Deli on shattuck ave in berkeley. http://www.saulsdeli.com/. We meet to  network and share leads with each other. The next meeting is monday Oct 10th @9:15am. All are welcome.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Sauls Deli - 1475 Sahttuck ave \, Berkeley\, CA 94709 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=65 DTSTART:20120425T180000 DTEND:20120425T210000 SUMMARY:Rooted and Rising DESCRIPTION: Rooted and Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions SalonThe New Leaders Initative is launching a new event series\, called Rooted and Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions Salon.These events\, geared towards youth ages 13-25\, are all about orienting participants towards new ways of thinking about age-old environmental and social justice 'problems'.This is an RSVP ONLY event\, so complete the survey below and find out more about this exciting series:http://eii.org/bya/ rootedandrisingOur inagural event\, "Waste Not\, Want Not" begins at 6:15pm on August 24th. "Waste Not\, Want Not" will bring together Dianna Cohen from the Plastics Pollution Coalition\, Alex Lin - 2007 Brower Youth Award Winner\, and Bridgett Luther of Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation\, to discuss solutions to the problem of waste in our society.Be sure to complete the survey as soon as possible to reserve your spot at the first Rooted and Rising! Space is *highly* limited\, as we feel that smaller groups\, comprised mostly of youth under the age of 25\, will give more opportunity for interaction\, idea-sharing and networking.We will provide food\, drink and merriment but we need you to RSVP to reserve your spot by completing the survey:http://eii.org/bya/ rootedandrisingFind us on Facebook: https://www. facebook.com/event.php?eid= 234364523268596#!/event.php? eid=124345120990617For any questions\, contact bya@earthisland.org.See you at Rooted and Rising! \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:David Brower Center - 2150 Allston Way\, Suite 460 (4th Floor) \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1653 DTSTART:20120425T110000 DTEND:20120425T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1808 DTSTART:20120425T151000 DTEND:20120425T151000 SUMMARY:Film 50: History of Cinema Film and the Other Arts DESCRIPTION:Lectures by Marilyn FabeA UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permitsIn one way or another\, each film we'll study in Film 50 this semester makes prominent use of another art form: theater\, literature\, painting\, dance\, music\, architecture\, photography. In film studies\, we often ask\, “To what extent is cinema a synthesis of all the other arts\, and to what extent is it a separate art form\, with its own unique and specific expressive possibilities?” "How are the art forms that preceded film transformed or modified once they are incorporated into the film medium?" We'll consider these questions as we look at movies in which another art form plays a starring role.Special admission prices applyGeneral admission\, $11.50\; BAM/PFA members\, $7.50\; UC Berkeley students\, $5.50\; Seniors\, disabled persons\, UC Berkeley faculty and staff\, non-UC Berkeley students\, and youth 17 and under\, $8.50. Programs often sell out\, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 22. Members at the Sponsor level and above will receive exclusive access to Film 50 tickets between December 15 and 22. Join or upgrade your membership to the Sponsor level -- our best-value membership! Wednesday\, January 18\, 20123:10 p.m. Course Introduction: The Language of CinemaLecture by Marilyn Fabe Students are introduced to basic film techniques and terminology through the screening of clips taken from classical Hollywood films and the European art cinema. We will discuss which film techniques are unique to the film medium and which overlap with those of the other arts.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.We begin by screening the first films shown to a paying audience\, discussing how these films differed from cinema as we know it today. In what ways were the first films unique creations\, something new under the sun\, and in what ways did they draw on the preceding arts? We will then examine the evolution of film into a medium for telling stories and the influence of theater and literature on early film narratives.Wednesday\, January 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Back to the Beginning: From the Cinema of Attractions to Narrative IllusionismLecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Wednesday\, February 1\, 20123:10 p.m. The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot (France\, 1956). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes\, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process\, a spontaneous revelation of form in continual transformation. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael). (78 mins)Wednesday\, February 8\, 20123:10 p.m. RopeAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1948). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.Hitchcock’s tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long\, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it\, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). With Buster Keaton’s The Playhouse (1921). (80 mins)Wednesday\, February 15\, 20123:10 p.m. Swing TimeFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers swing their way through Manhattan in this\, one of the most effervescent of all Hollywood musicals. Music by Jerome Kern. (105 mins)Wednesday\, February 22\, 20123:10 p.m. The Red ShoesMichael Powell\, Emeric Pressburger (U.K.\, 1948) 35mm Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. A ballerina must choose between love and art in this ravishing Technicolor melodrama\, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made.Wednesday\, February 29\, 20123:10 p.m. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray (India\, 1955). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two classics of postwar cinema: Ray’s monumental Pather Panchali\, which follows a young boy in rural Bengal\, and features a score by Ravi Shankar\, and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon\, a “surrealist nightmare film” by the matriarch of American experimental cinema. (129 mins)Wednesday\, March 7\, 20123:10 p.m. Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa (Japan\, 1957). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen. -- Time. The towering Toshiro Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum). (107 mins)Wednesday\, March 14\, 20123:10 p.m. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock (U.S.\, 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism\, death\, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)Wednesday\, March 21\, 20123:10 p.m. To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan (U.S.\, 1962). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of courageous lawyer Atticus Finch in this stirring adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. The struggle for civil rights in the American South is seen through the eyes of a child\, as she watcher her father -- a lawyer -- defend a black man accused of rape in ‘30s Alabama. (125 mins)Wednesday\, April 4\, 20123:10 p.m. Red DesertMichelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France\, 1964) New 35mm Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe.Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)
Wednesday\, April 11\, 20123:10 p.m. PlaytimeJacques Tati (France\, 1967). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema”(New Yorker). (123 mins)Wednesday\, April 18\, 20123:10 p.m. AdaptationSpike Jonze (U.S.\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman\, the team behind Being John Malkovich\, reunited for this meta-tale involving a repressed\, shy screenwriter (“Charlie Kaufman”) stumped for ideas on adaptating the nonfiction bookThe Orchid Thief\, until his swinging twin brother Donald comes along. Nicolas Cage stars\, with Meryl Streep\, Tilda Swinton\, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (114 mins)Wednesday\, April 25\, 20123:10 p.m. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s DiaryGuy Maddin (Canada\, 2002). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Yes\, you heard right\, it's a ballet -- but you've never seen a dance film like this before. Both deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful\, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema\, this Dracula is thoroughly\, deliciously Maddin. (75 mins)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater - 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1654 DTSTART:20120426T110000 DTEND:20120426T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1655 DTSTART:20120427T110000 DTEND:20120427T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2215 DTSTART:20120427T200000 DTEND:20120427T200000 SUMMARY:Paco de Lucía DESCRIPTION:After decades on the road as one of the world’s most revered guitarists\, 64-year old flamenco legend Paco de Lucía has become a quietly elusive figure who drops from public view for years at a time. De Lucía was largely unknown in the U.S. until the recording Friday Night In San Francisco\, a sensational 1981 acoustic showdown with jazz stars John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola\, that cemented his status as a guitar hero. He made acclaimed appearances on records by Chick Corea and others in the ‘80s\, and a thrilling reunion of The Guitar Trio led to a Verve album and world tour in 1996. But the Andalusian master maintained a steadfast commitment to flamenco as his primary art form. Landmark recordings including Siroco\, Zyryab\, Luzia and 2004’s masterful Cositas Buenas further reinforced de Lucía’s reputation as a peerless virtuoso who has single-handedly reinvented the flamenco vocabulary. His latest project is an unprecedented collaboration with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra\, Vitoria Suite\, an extended work that uses jazz and blues to investigate the indigenous music of the Basque region. The guitarist returns to the Bay Area for his first performance in four years -- and those who attend will never forget it.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Paramount Theatre - 2025 Broadway \, Oakland\, CA USA 94612 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1656 DTSTART:20120428T110000 DTEND:20120428T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=150 DTSTART:20120429T110000 DTEND:20120429T130000 SUMMARY:Soul Sanctuary Dance - Weekly Freestyle All Ages Dance at Ashkenaz DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, Berkeley's midday Sunday dance at Ashkenaz "Where newcomers feel like regulars\, and regulars feel like family" All Volunteer Produced No Admission FeeEvery Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm\, we dance to an irresistible eclectic blend of funk\, soul\, world music\, positive hip hop\, reggae\, dance classics\, jazz\, blues\, electronica\, and other music to free mind\, body and soul. Soul Sanctuary Dance is a welcoming and inclusive all-ages community freestyle dance that supports free expression\, community\, physical and emotional health\, and a spirit of generosity. The dance is organized and produced by volunteers. Admission: we don't charge a fee for admission. Instead\, we post this message at the welcome table: "Your dance today at Soul Sanctuary Dance is a gift from those who have made donations to the dance\, and from the volunteers who organize and produce the dance. We invite you to pay this generosity forward for future dancers\, in whatever amount or manner you choose\, so that we can continue to keep this chain of gifts alive." Wheelchair accessible. No scented products please. Shoes optional. Organic fruit for all after the dance.More info at http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center - 1317 San Pablo Avenue \, Berkeley\, CA USA 94702 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1500 DTSTART:20120429T150000 DTEND:20120429T150000 SUMMARY:Sandrine Piau DESCRIPTION:Making her eagerly awaited Cal Performances debut\, this enchanting French soprano is an artist of fierce musical intelligence who is currently riding high on a string of impressive artistic accomplishments. She was crowned Opera Singer of the Year in 2009 by the French music industry\, and in 2010\, her album Between Heaven and Earth won the prestigious MIDEM Classical Album of the Year award. "Piau's performance is in every respect superior: brilliantly incisive of tone\, more even throughout the vocal registers and dazzlingly fluent in coloratura passages" (Sunday Times\, London). Her rich and varied Berkeley program features music by Mendelssohn\, Fauré\, Liszt\, Chausson\, Strauss\, Ravel\, Poulenc\, and Britten.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Hertz Hall - College Ave at Bancroft (UC Berkeley Campus)\, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1657 DTSTART:20120429T110000 DTEND:20120429T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2101 DTSTART:20120429T140000 DTEND:20120429T170000 SUMMARY:Help us send free books to people in prison DESCRIPTION:Volunteers with the Prisoners Literature Project (http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/) send free reading\, reference\, and study books to people imprisoned in the United States. You can help us to answer requests from people in prison and to find and package books that fit their requests.We currently meet for our letter-opening and packaging events one day per week (Sunday afternoons)\, but may expand this to more days in the near future.If you'd like to join us in this rewarding and easy-to-learn volunteer effort\, come to The Grassroots House @ 2022 Blake Street in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 5pm.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:The Grassroots House - 2022 Blake Street \, Berkeley\, CA 94704 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2304 DTSTART:20120429T100000 DTEND:20120429T100000 SUMMARY:Dollar Day at Golden Gate Fields DESCRIPTION:There is no better deal in town than Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. Indulge in $1 hot dogs and sip on $1 beers and sodas. Enjoy all the savings while watching and wagering on premier Thoroughbred horse racing. General admission and parking drop to only $1 each\, making it the best entertainment value the Bay Area. Visit http://www.goldengatefields.com for more information or www.innerjockey.com to see how fun runs here.\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Golden Gate Fields - Wizard Room 1100 Eastshore Highway\, Berkeley\, CA 94710 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1501 DTSTART:20120501T200000 DTEND:20120501T200000 SUMMARY:San Francisco Symphony DESCRIPTION:Nadya Tichman\, violinJonathan Vinocour\, Yun Jie Liu\, violaBarbara Bogatin\, Marie Dalby\, viola da gambaRobin McKee\, fluteJonathan Fischer\, oboeJohn Thiessen\, trumpet As part of its Centennial Season festivities\, the San Francisco Symphony brings the celebration to the East Bay\, appearing in partnership with Cal Performances for the first time in over 20 years. Led by acclaimed British conductor and Baroque specialist Jane Glover\, the orchestra performs a program featuring some of Bach and Handel's most joyful\, jubilant\, and adored music. Program: Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3\; Royal Fireworks Music • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2\, 3 and 6 \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1658 DTSTART:20120502T110000 DTEND:20120502T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1659 DTSTART:20120503T110000 DTEND:20120503T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum - 2626 Bancroft Way \, Berkeley\, CA 94720 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2318 DTSTART:20120503T190000 DTEND:20120503T210000 SUMMARY:Rick's Supper Club-Bocanova DESCRIPTION:Beginning Thursday\, March 1\, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.\, Owner/Chef Rick Hackett and Bocanova invite you to experience a special dinner series in partnership with several of the East Bay’s most notable winemakers. A four-course family-style menu\, priced at $58.00\, will include wine pairings and a signature cocktail\, created by Bar Manager Stella Davies. Served in Bocanova’s intimate private dining room\, each of “Rick’s Supper Club” dinners will provide guests the opportunity to interact with both the featured winemaker and Rick in a convivial setting. Each month\, “Rick’s Supper Club” menu will be crafted to complement a specific East Bay produced wine. For the first of the dinner series\, Rick welcomes extraordinary winemaker and long-time friend\, Steve Edmunds. The supper menu will feature uniquely created dishes such as Ahi Tuna Crudo with caper\, tomatillo\, chiles\, and raisins\; Sea Green and Quinoa Chowder\; Achiote Marinated Turkey Breast with jalapeno and mint salsa\; and Leche Fritas with lucuma ice cream. Bocanova’s Private Dining Room55 Webster Street (in Jack London Square)Oakland\, CA 94607510 .444.1233www.bocanova.com Price:                         $58.00 per person for a signature cocktail and a four-course family-style menu with paired wines\; exclusive of tax and gratuity\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Bocanova - 55 Webster St Jack London Square\, Oaklan\, CA 94607 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=281 DTSTART:20120504T200000 DTEND:20120504T220000 SUMMARY:First Friday Neighborhood Square Dance DESCRIPTION:Live music\, live calling\, great dancing every first Friday of the month. All levels welcome. All dances are taught. Fun is had.Music by the Squirrelly Stringband. Calling by Jordan Ruyle\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library - 6501 Telegraph Ave \, Oakland\, CA 94609 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1502 DTSTART:20120504T200000 DTEND:20120504T200000 SUMMARY:Dianne Reeves DESCRIPTION:"The only jazz singer with a voice big enough to rival Sarah Vaughan's" (New York Times) comes to Cal Performances for one night only! As a result of her virtuosity\, improvisational prowess\, and unique jazz and R&B stylings\, Dianne Reeves won three consecutive Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal Performance -- a first in any vocal category. She also famously appeared and performed in George Clooney's Academy Award-nominated film Good Night\, and Good Luck (the soundtrack winning Reeves yet another Grammy in 2006). With her amazing three-octave range and virtuosic phrasings\, this jazz diva consistently delivers unforgettable performances. \n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered Site LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall - Bancroft Ave. & Dana St. UC Berkeley Campus\, Berkeley\, CA USA 94729 CATEGORIES:Berkeleyside Events PRIORITY:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1660 DTSTART:20120504T110000 DTEND:20120504T170000 SUMMARY:The Reading Room DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses\, including Kelsey Street Press\, Atelos Books\, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn\, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!   Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area\, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses\, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett\, Bill Berkson\, and Lewis MacAdams.   As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring\, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein\, poet\, publisher\, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian\, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look\, listen\, share\, and read in The Reading Room.   RE@DS Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30Jackqueline Frost   Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30 Tom Comitta   Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30 Monica Peck    Free   BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, staff\, and retirees Children (12 & under) $10   Adults (18-64) $7   Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)\n______________________________\nThis Event Downloaded From a Helios Calendar Powered S