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THEATER
AURORA THEATRE
“Split” by Mayo Simon, June 1 through July 2. A mordant clear-eyed view of an older couple's love affair. $25 to $28. Wednesday through Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822.
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
“Closer” by Patrick Marber, through July 9. A funny, touching and unflinchingly honest examination of love and relationships set in contemporary London. $38 to $48.50.
Tuesday, Thursday through Saturday, 8 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; May 27, June 1, June 3, June 10, June 15, June 24, June 29 and July 8, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 845-4700 or (888) 4BRTTIX.
CALIFORNIA
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
“Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, June 3 through June 24. The classic romantic comedy of mismatched lovers forced into a union. $21 to $38 general; $19 to $38 seniors; $10 to $38 children. Wednesday and Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m.; June 13 and June 20, 7 p.m. June 24, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Bruns Memorial Amphitheatre, Shakespeare Festival Way/Gateway Exit on state Highway 24.
(510) 548-9666 or www.calshakes.org
LaVal’s Subterranean
Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Yoni Barkan. The play will run from June 8 to July 8, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. each night.
1834 Euclid Ave. (510) 234-6046.
MUSIC VENUES
ASHKENAZ
Creole Belles, June 13, 9 p.m. Cajon dance lesson with Cheryl McBride at 8 p.m. included in price. $8.
West Coast Swing Allstars, June 14, 9 p.m. Swing dance lesson with Nick and Shanna at 8 p.m. included in price. $8.
George and The Wonders, DJ Brixton Hitman, June 15, 9:30 p.m. $8.
Let's Go Bowling, Critical Mass, Stiff Richards, June 16, 9:30 p.m. $11.
Tom Rigney and Flambeau, June 17, 9:30 p.m. Cajun dance lesson with Diana Castillo at 8:30 p.m. included in price. $11.
Ali Khan, June 18, 7:30 p.m. $8.
Nestinari, June 20, 9 p.m. Bulgarian dance lesson with Petur Iliev at 8 p.m. $8.
The Poullard-Thompson Cajun Trio, June 21, 9 p.m. Cajun dance lesson with Patti Whithurst at 8 p.m. $8.
Grateful Dean DJ Night with Digital Dave, June 22, 10 p.m. $5.
1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. (510) 525-5099 or www.ashkenaz.com
BLAKES
“Third World,” June 14. With UC Buu, DJ Add, Jah Bonz, Big Willie. $5.
Ripe, Quimbombo, June 15. $4.
Slaptones, Terra Cotta Troup, June 16. $5.
Monkey, Firme, Los Karnales, June 17. $5.
Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Clyde's Ride, June 18. $8.
The Blue Monday Jam featuring The Steve Gannon Band, June 19. $3.
Ascension, June 20. $5.
“Third World,” June 21. With UC Buu, DJ Add, Jah Bonz, Big Willie. $5.
Ripe, XODO, June 22. $4.
For age 18 and older. Music at 9:30 p.m. 2367 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley. (510) 848-0886.
FREIGHT AND SALVAGE
The James King Band, June 13. $14.50 to $15.50.
Marley's Ghost, June 14 and June 15. $14.50 to $15.50.
Laurie Lewis and Her Bluegrass Pals, Slaid Cleaves, June 16. $15.50 to $16.50.
Oak, Ash and Thorn, June 17. $15.50 to $16.50.
Teresa Trull and Barbara Higbie, June 18. $16.50 to $17.50.
“Freight 32nd Anniversary Revue and Fundraiser,” June 20. Featuring The House Jacks, Rebecca Riots, Dave Nachmanoff, Jenna Mammina, The Modern Hicks. $13.50 to $14.50.
Urban Acoustic Dude, June 21. $12.50 to $13.50.
Kathi McDonald and Brian Auger, June 22. $15.50 to $16.50.
Music at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 548-1761 or (510) 762-BASS.
LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER
“Collective Soul: New Directions of Hip Hop,” June 16, 8:30 p.m. Featuring Company of Prophets, Goapele, The Living Word Ensemble. $10 general; $8 students.
Peruvian master guitarist Raul Garcia Zarate, June 17, 8 p.m. $16.
Jessie Turner, A Sleeping Bee, June 18, 7 p.m. $8 to $15.
Jim Page, June 21, 7:30 p.m. $5 to $15.
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 849-2568 or www.lapena.org
924 GILMAN ST.
Bane, Calloused, Adamantium, Death by Stereo, June 16.
Noothgrush, Kojak, PCP Roadblock, June 17.
Damad, Good Clean Fun, Meatjack, Brain Blood Volume, June 24.
$5. Music at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 924 Gilman St., Berkeley. (510) 525-9926.
THE STARRY PLOUGH PUB
Brothers of Baladi, Sisters of the Dance, June 15. $5.
Vagabond Lovers, Christy McWilson, June 16. $7.
Noe Venable and The Ruiners, Eric McFadden Experience, Lael Alderman, June 17. $6.
Ceili Dance featuring Brian Theriault and Friends, June 21. 8 p.m.
Randy Weeks, Jim Roll, June 22. $6.
For age 21 and over. Wednesday, 8 p.m.; Thursday, 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9:45 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-2082.
MUSEUMS
UC BERKELEY ART
MUSEUM
“Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition,” May 20 through July 2. The 13th annual exhibit of work by candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree. Artist Talk, May 21, 3 p.m. At Gallery 2.
“Anne Chu/MATRIX 184 Untitled,” April 16 through June 18. The exhibition features a selection of Chu's T'ang dynasty funerary figures sculpted following her travels to Xian and Guangdong. The wooden figures range in height from 28 inches to over six feet.
“China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic,” through June 18. The work of 25 Chinese and Western photographers explores half a century of social and political upheaval in this unusual exhibit. The 200 photographs, both black-and-white and color, cover the many regions, cultures and people that make up China as well as the mix of traditional life and the modern one.
“Autour de Rodin: Auguste Rodin and His Contemporaries,” through August. An exhibit of 11 bronze maquettes on loan from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in Los Angeles. The bronzes range in style from the artist's classically inspired “Torso of a Woman” to the anguish of “The Martyr.” Some of the maquettes were cast during Rodin’s lifetime, others have been cast fairly recently under the aegis of the Musee Rodin which alone is authorized to cast his sculptures posthumously.
$6 general; $4 seniors and students ages 12 to 18; free children age 12 and under; free Thursday, 11 a.m. to noon and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. (510) 642-0808.
HALL OF HEALTH
2230 Shattuck Ave. (lower level), Berkeley
A hands-on community health education museum and science center sponsored by Children's Hospital Oakland and Alta Bates Medical Center.
Free. For children ages 3 to 12 and their parents.
(510) 549-1564
LAWRENCE HALL
OF SCIENCE
“Experiment Gallery,” through Sept. 10. Step inside a giant laboratory and experiment with concepts surrounding sound, light, mechanics, electricity, and weather.
“Math Rules!” ongoing exhibit. A math exhibit of hands-on problem-solving stations, each with a different mathematical challenge. Make mathematical ice-cream cones, use blocks to build three dimensional structures, make dodecagon pies from a variety of mathematical shapes and stretch mathematical thinking.
“Within the Human Brain,” ongoing installation. Visitors test their cranial nerves, play skeeball, master mazes, match musical tones and construct stories inside a simulated “rat cage” of learning experiments.
$6 general; $4 seniors, students and children ages 7 to 18; $2 children ages 3 to 6; free children under age 3. Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Centennial Drive, University of California, Berkeley. (510) 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu
PHOEBE HEARST MUSEUM
Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
“Modern Treasures from Ancient Iran,” through Oct. 29. This exhibit explores nomadic and town life in ancient and modern Iran as illustrated in bronze and pottery vessels, and textiles.
“Pana O’ahu: Sacred Stones – Sacred Places,” through July 16. An exhibit of photographs by Jan Becket and Joseph Singer.
“Phoebe Hearst Museum-Approaching a Century of Anthropology,” a sampling of the vast collections of the museum, its mission, history, and current research, with selections from ancient Egypt, ancient Peru, California Indians, Asia (India), and Africa.
“Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture,” Ishi, the last Yahi Indian of California, spent the final years of his life, 1911 to 1916, living at the museum, working with anthropologists to record his culture, demonstrating technological skills, and retelling Yahi myths, tales, and songs.
Wednesday through Sunday 10 am -4:30 pm; Thursday until 9 pm (Sept-May)
(510) 643-7648
HABITOT CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue
A museum especially for children age 7 and younger. Highlights include “WaterWorks,” an area with some unusual water toys, an Infant Tree for babies, a garden especially for toddlers, a child-scale grocery store and cafe, and a costume shop and stage for junior thespians. The museum also features a toy lending library.
Exhibit: “Back to the Farm,” open-ended. This interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels like an earthworm, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and much more.
Admission is $4 for adults; $6 child age 7 and under; $3 for each additional child.
Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Tuesday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(510) 647-1111
JUDAH L. MAGNES
MUSEUM
2911 Russell St., Berkeley
“Telling Time: To Everything There Is A Season,” through May 2002.
An exhibit structured around the seasons of the year and the seasons of life with objects ranging from the sacred and the secular, to the provocative and the whimsical. Highlights include treasures from Jewish ceremonial and folk art, rare books and manuscripts, contemporary and traditional fine art, video, photography and cultural kitsch. Through Nov. 4: “Spring and Summer.”
Free. Sunday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(510) 549-6950.
GALLERIES
A.C.C.I. GALLERY
“Abstract Expressions,” through July 1. A group show featuring Rita Flanagan, Carolyn Careis, Heather Hutchinson, Muriel Paley, and Naomi Policoff.
Free. Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 843-2527.
BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, SOUTH BRANCH
“You’re Blase: The Art of Nick Mastick,” May 15 through June 15. An exhibit of collages. Free. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 1901 Russell St., Berkeley. (510) 644-6860.
GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION
“On Common Ground.” through June 23. This exhibit is a portrait of faith-based communities in Los Angeles.
“Finding the Sacred Mountain,” through June 20. An exhibit of sumi-e and watercolors by Robert Kostka.
Free. Monday through Thursday, 8:30 am. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 7 p.m. Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Rd., Berkeley. (510) 649-2541.
KALA INSTITUTE
“Markings/Imprints,” through July 28. The 2000 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibitions, Part I, featuring works by Susan Belau, Liliana Lobo Ferreira, and Jamie Morgan.
Free. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Workshop Media Center Gallery, 1060 Heinz Ave., Berkeley. (510) 549-2977.
NEW PIECES GALLERY
“Progressions: the Quilt as Art,” through June 29. An exhibit of quilts by Jill Le Croisette.
“Go We to the Revels Masked,” through June 29. An exhibit of dolls by Elise Peeples.
Free. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1597 Solano Ave., Berkeley. (510) 527-6779.
TRAYWICK GALLERY
Rachel Davis, Samantha Fisher, Benicia Gantner, Cherith Rose, June 21 through July 22. An exhibit of new work by the four artists.
Artist Reception, June 21, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“nudge,” May 17 through June 18. An exhibit of new work by Terry Hoff. Reception, May 17, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artist Talk, June 9, 10:30 a.m.
Free. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1316 10th St., Berkeley. (510) 527-1214.
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