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Calendar of Events & Activities

Saturday September 09, 2000

Saturday, Sept. 9

Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival

11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Park

Martin Luther King Jr. and Allston ways

Poets will include Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Kay Ryan, Michael McClure, Julia Butterfly Hill and others. For a complete list see www.peotryflash.org

Open house

Julia Morgan center for the Arts

Meet new leaders and artist and learn about future plans for the facility. RSVPs encouraged

2640 College Ave. Berkeley

4- 7 p.m.

845-8542

Sunday, Sept. 1

“Doors to Madame Marie”

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

1414 Walnut St.

As part of the Jewish Learning Center’s Authors Series in the Library, Odette Meyers will be available for discussion and booksigning.

848-0237

“Next Stop, Greenwich

Village”

2-4:30 p.m.

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center Cinema

1414 Walnut St.

Based on filmmaker Paul Mazursky’s own passage from Brooklyn to Greenwich Village, the film is about the dynamics of leaving home and trying to leave home behind. There will be a peer led discussion following the movie.

$2 suggested donation.

848-0237

Solano Avenue Stroll

10 a.m.

The Local Legacies on Parade kicks off with Grand Marshal Wavy Gravy. The mile-long block party is filled with over 75 entertainers including RhythMix - a women's percussion group, Frog Legs - a Cajun band, and Mal Sharpe & Big Money in Dixieland. There's a giant slide, a bicycle ramp-jumping show, ethnic foods, game booths, a hang gliding simulator, pony rides, castle bounces, a silent auction, dunk tanks, art projects, palm readings and more.

Admission is free.

Monday, Sept. 11

“12th annual Berkeley YMCA

Golf Tournament”

Tilden Park Golf Course

Shotgun Start at 11:00 a.m.

Entry fee includes cart, lunch on the course and dinner. Proceeds benefit Albany-Berkeley YMCA

$125 Entry Fee

549-4525

Voter workshop

1 p.m.

Learn about voting absentee and working a local polling places. North Berkeley Senior Center

1901 Hearst Ave.

644-6107

Tuesday, Sept. 12

Tai Chi Chuan

11 a.m.

North Berkeley Senior Center

1901 Hearst Ave.

644-6107

Wednesday, Sept. 13

Mid-Autumn Festival

North Berkeley Senior Center

1901 Hearst Ave.

644-6107

Last town hall meeting on the

Berkeley Housing Authority

Plan

6-8 p.m.

West Berkeley Senior Center

1900 Sixth St.

For more information on the plan, call Wanda Remmers 548-8776

Commission on Disability

6:30 p.m.

North Berkeley Senior Center

1901 Hearst Ave.

The commission will discuss Project Impact disaster funding, I-80 overpass amenities, removal of obstacles from the sidewalk and more.

Second Annual Bertram Gross Award

7 p.m.

La Pena Cultural Center

3105 Shattuck Ave.

The campaign to abolish poverty/full employment Coalition presents the second Annual Bertram Gross Award. Gross, 1912-1998, was the chief author of the Roosevelt Full Employment Act, the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act and the current full employment legislation HR1050.

Award recipients are Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek, Amaha Kassa, East Bay Alliance for Sustainable Economy and Pat Ford, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union.

Music by Barbara Dane. $10-$15; nobody turned away for lack of funds.