The Sit List: 5 ways to learn about Berkeley’s culture
This week, learn about the Ohlone people; hear a string quartet or electronic music; join a Black history song and storytelling performance; discover the early Berkeley food scene.
Minhae Shim Roth
Minhae Shim Roth is a freelance writer, reporter and editor. Her essays, features and articles have been published in Glamour, Good Housekeeping and Shondaland, among others. She is a contributor to both Berkeleyside and Nosh.
Articles by Minhae
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The Sit List: 5 ways to get involved in Berkeley
Watch a documentary about restaurant workers; join a conversation about Black Berkeley; learn about botanical art; and explore California’s wilderness.
The Sit List: 5 ways to celebrate February holidays and more
This week, join a Lunar New Year celebration, see local Black artists for Black History Month, join a global book festival, date a shark and more.
The Sit List: 5 events to spark your creativity
This week, attend a festival of women authors; learn how to dye naturally; witness a powerful play about Nelson Mandela; watch a pastel art demo; take a dive ‘Into Africa.’
The Sit List: 5 Berkeley events to broaden your horizons
Learn about birds’ nests; listen to works by women composers; discuss what’s fact vs fiction in the disinformation age; view flower art; and watch online performance.
The Sit List: 5 events in Berkeley to end the week
Laugh with comedians, drink wine with the novelist Jonathan Lethem, learn about Berkeley’s food history, declutter your closet, watch a documentary about maternal mental health.
The Sit List: 5 virtual events to uplift you this week
This week, look through a virtual telescope, party at a digital nightclub, practice gentle yoga, go to a poetry dive, and listen to a podcast about places in Berkeley.
The Sit List: 5 ways to kick off the new year
Happy New Year, Berkeleyside readers! This week we’ve found ways to elevate your mind and body: dance, make music, watch and discuss films, discover the wonderful world of science.
The Sit List: 5 virtual events to help you close out 2020
Join an ugly sweater and pants dance party, train your little ones to make healthy food, learn the basics of creating comics with Black Comics Matter — and more!
The Sit List: 5 ways to start enjoying the holiday season
Watch 2 very different versions of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ take a family-fun workshop about ‘The Hard Nut,’ shop a holiday pottery market or take a COVID-19-friendly photo with Santa.
The Sit List: 5 ways to shop, play and learn online in Berkeley and beyond
Shop local art, immerse yourself in 1960s Berkeley, travel back to Israel in the Iron Age, be seduced by ‘radical love and healing’ or fall in love with California, again.
The Sit List: 5 things to do to stay fit and entertained around the holidays
Run off holiday eating with the 2020 Revenge of the Bird Virtual 5K Turkey Trot, shop a Black women-owned business holiday marketplace — plus poetry, art and a variety show.
The Sit List: 5 things you can do to support racial and economic justice
Listen to an author read his book about fry bread; watch films by Black and queer filmmakers; join a BIOPOC writing workshop; and enjoy Fourth Street’s holiday lights.
The Sit List: 5 ways to stay woke and be active digitally in Berkeley and beyond
A coffee lab hosted by Chef Tu David Phu; a poetry for social justice workshop led by poet Tony Robles; weekly activities for kids from the Bay Area Children’s Theatre. And more!
The Sit List: 5 creative things to watch, listen or do online in Berkeley
This week, enjoy a performance project on student life in the time of COVID, a cartooning workshop, a slice of Berkeley history, a hilarious audio play and a viral exhibit.
The Sit List: 5 spooky and smart things you can do safely during COVID-19
What does a socially distanced Halloween look like? Check out this week’s list for some haunted options, along with a feminist science film series and a rallying voting initiative.
