Hot jazz from Berkeley’s Cal Performances with the very cool trumpeter Bria Skonberg
She delivers jazz standards, vintage pop songs, finely wrought originals, and alchemical jazz renditions of songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Queen.
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Stimulus bill includes funds for arts venues. Which Berkeley ones will be eligible?
The Save Our Stages act makes about $15 billion available to independent music venues, theaters and cultural organizations.
Nathalie Joachim’s world of Haitian women
The Juilliard-trained flutist makes her virtual Berkeley debut on Oct. 14 as a headliner in Cal Performances pandemic-accommodating At Home series.
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How do you keep (live) music playing in the age of social distancing?
What does the future hold for live music? We checked in with cherished music venues like Ashkenaz, Cal Performances and the Freight to see how they’re feeling and what they’re planning.
Hālau O Kekuhi, a dance of revolution, and Māhealani Uchiyama’s Pasifika
Don’t miss the hypnotic sound and movement of this powerhouse hula troupe from the Big Island at Zellerbach Hall, this Sunday at 3 p.m.
At Cal Performances, it’s not enough just to put on an event. The audience should understand the artistry, too.
Sabrina Klein , the director of artistic literacy at Cal Performances, wants to start a movement to better engage audiences.
W. Kamau Bell: ‘Take a visitor to Cal and there is nothing that says it’s friendly to black students’
The comedian and activist acknowledges Cal isn’t alone in its lack of black faces. He’s leading a discussion for the campus Wednesday on the black experience at UC Berkeley.
Wang Ramirez shakes up time, space at Cal Performances
The boundary-blurring Company Wang Ramirez will perform its hip-hop dance theater work “Borderline” at Cal Performances next week.
Picks and highlights from the new Cal Performances season
We picked some the most exciting performances from an eclectic and varied new season calendar.
Filter Theatre’s ‘Twelfth Night’: more of a gig than a regular piece of theater
British group brings its rock & roll sensibility to Shakespeare at Cal Performances.
The sound at Cal’s Zellerbach Hall is carefully crafted
Ever noticed how the sound at Zellerbach is rich, resonant — heroic, even? It’s thanks to a system called Constellation created by Berkeley’s Meyer Sound.
