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Calendar of Events & Activities
Thursday, August 24
Community Dance Party
7:45-9:45 p.m.
Live Oak Park
1301 Shattuck Ave.
Dance instructions will be provided by The Berkeley Folk Dancers.
Teens $2, adult non-members $4.
524-7803
Movie: “Anastasia”
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst and MLK Jr. Way
Featuring Bergman, Brenner, and Hayes.
644-6107
Fair Campaign Practices
Commission
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Ave.
Health Room
The agenda will include a discussion with the city clerk about the use of the web site for publication of campaign contribution information.
West Berkeley Project Area
Commission
7 p.m.
West Berkeley Senior Center
1900 Sixth St.
Among the items to be discussed are the request for proposals for a parking garage and a Fifth Street public market.
League of Women Voters
Luncheon
noon
Bay Holiday Inn
1800 Powell St.
UC Berkeley Professor Bruce Cain will speak
$45
Call: 642-1657
Friday, August 25
Bridge
1 p.m.
Live Oak Community Center
1301 Shattuck Ave.
The games are open to all players
For partnership and other informa-
tion, please call Vi Kimoto at (510)
223-6539
Girls golf clinic
8:30 a.m.-noon
Tilden Park Golf Course
The California and San Francisco women’s golf teams Co-host a free clinic as part of the national “golf for women/national golf Coaches Association “Get a Girl Golfing Day.” For girls/teens age 8-17. Bring clubs, if possible, but this is not required.
643-7940
Saturday, August 26
“Wild about Books”
10:30 a.m.
Berkeley Public Central Library
2121 Allston Way
“Hats Off to Reading!” You’ll hear about lost hats, matching hats, paper hats-and make your own to take home with you. Frog and Toad plant a garden together.
Sophocles’ “Antigone”
1:30 p.m.
Fellowship of Humanity, garden
411 28th St. and Broadway
Oakland
A staged reading of an adaptation of “Antigone” by Walter Springer.
Contributions.
451-5818
Open House Tour of the
Dharma Publishing Showroom
and Tibetan Aid Project.
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon
The tour will show traditional Tibetan book making, sacred art projects, and spinning copper prayer wheels. The video provides a look at the World Peace Ceremony in Bodhgaya, India. A vegetarian lunch will be served to all who stay and volunteer on one of the projects.
RSVP lunch and volunteers only, 1-3 p.m.
548-5407 or 848-423
Last scheduled Underhill
movie night
9 p.m.
Underhill lot at College and Channing
Protesters against the development of the Underhill lot as a parking structure will have the last movie-showing of the year: “Berkeley in the 60's” and “Pulp Fiction.”
http://www.bclu.org/underhill/
CREW-CUT
Volunteer Orientation at Bird
Rescue
10 a.m.-noon
699 Potter St., Aquatic Park
International Bird Rescue and Research in Berkeley will be holding a volunteer orientation for people who want to help injured and orphaned native birds and to learn more about the skill of wildlife rehabilitation.
call 841-9086 to register
Star Alliance 15th
Anniversary
1-4 p.m.
Live Oak Park
1301 Shattuck Ave.
Star Alliance — an institute for world peace — initiates its 15th
Anniversary Year with a free concert they’re calling “Sitar, guitar & song.” The public is invited! Topping the bill is Indian sitarist Habib Kahn, freshly returned from concerts in Lebanon. Ballads in English and Spanish will be sung by composer-vocalist Michael DeWall. Brian Wallace will perform on the sarood.
The event is free.
848-2764
Sunday, August 27
“Hearing the Voice of the Lad
Where He Is: Rosh Hashanah”
8 p.m.
Berkeley Richmond JCC
1414 Walnut St.
Rabbi Ben Hollander, from Israel, presents a free evening lecture, in English, with the cooperation with the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay.
World Music Festival
Noon to 6 p.m.
Durant Avenue just above Telegraph.
Telegraph merchants, artists, craftspeople, restaurants, and clubs will participate in this exciting event, which is Free and accessible to the entire Bay Area community.
Featured artists include ten-piece salsa veterans Orequestra Charanson; the modern Afro-beat band Kotoja; the West Coast's premier zydeco band, Zydeco Flames; and Liza Silva & Voz do Brazil.
The Festival is seeking volunteers, sponsors, and booth vendors. For further information, call 510-649-9500 or e-mail taa@transbay.net.
