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Ebony Museum of Arts
The museum specializes in the art and history of Africa.
Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
30 Jack London Village, Suite 209. (510) 763-0745.
Habitot Children’s Museum
Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue
“Back to the Farm.”
Ongoing
An 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 more.
Cost: $4 adults; $6 children age 7 and under; $3 for each additional child age 7 and under.
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.
647-1111 or www.habitot.org
Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell St.
549-6950
Free
Sunday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
“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.
“Spring and Summer.”
Through Nov. 4.
“Chagall: Master Prints and Posters, Selections from the Magnes Museum Collection.”
Through Sept. 28.
UC Berkeley Art Museum
2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
“Hans Hoffmann”
An exhibit of paintings by Hoffmann which emphasizes two experimental methods the artist employed: the introduction of slabs or rectangles of highly saturated colors and the use of large areas of black paint juxtaposed with intense oranges, greens and yellows.
The Asian Galleries
“Art of the Sung: Court and Monastery,” open-ended.
A display of early Chinese works from the permanent collection.
“Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes: The First 3,000 Years,” open-ended.
“Works on Extended Loan from Warren King,” open-ended.
“Three Towers of Han,”
$6 general; $4 seniors and students age 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 through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
642-0808.
Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland
“The 100 Languages of Children,” through October.
An exhibit of art by children from Reggio Emilia, Italy. At Carnegie Building Bender Room.
Free. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
430-2164
The Oakland Museum of
California
1000 Oak St., Oakland
“Helen Nestor: Personal and Political” Through Oct. 15.
An exhibit of images documenting the Free Speech Movement, the 60s civil rights marches, and women’s issues.
“California Classic: Realist Paintings by Robert Bechtle” through Oct. 1.
An exhibit of 18 paintings and drawings by the Bay Area artist dating from 1965 to 1997.
$6 general; $4 seniors and students; free children age 5 and under; second Sundays are free to all. Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; first Friday of the month, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
(888) OAK-MUSE or www.museumca.org.
Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery
942 Clay St., Oakland
625-1350
www.lizabetholiveria.com
Tuesday- Saturday
10:30 a.m. – 6 p.m..
Franklin Williams exhibit through Sept. 30
TRAX Gallery
1306 3rd. St., Berkeley
Mary Law “Altered Ceramic Pots”
through Oct. 21
For more information or to sign up for the workshop call 526-0279 or e-mail to cone5@aol.com
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave.
(510) 849-2568.
Hecho en Califas: Festival fo New Chicano Performance Arts
“Made in California” features five days of music, spoken word, theater, film and visual art by young Chicano/Latino artists from California.
Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m.: Ritmo del Barrio Musica. $10 general; $8
students.
Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.: Word/Descarga. $10 general; $8 students.
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: New Folkloric Fusion Musica. $8 general; $6
Stork Club
Wire Graffiti
9:30 p.m. Sept. 23
$5
2330 Telegraph, Oakland
444-6174
924 Gilman St.
924 Gilman Street is an all-ages, member-run no alcohol, drugs, and violence club. Most shows are $5. Memberships for the year are $2. Shows start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Sept 23: Plan 9, Anti-World, Venus Bleeding, Blue Velvet Flesh
Sept. 29: The Hellbillies, Subincision, Fracas, Union of the Dead, Monster Squad
Sept. 30: Yaphet Koto, Pitch Black, Phantom Limbs
Call 525-9926.
Cal Performances
Marisa Monte
Brazils’ best-selling pop singer performs her unique mix of styles, re-interpreting traditional Brazilian genres and filtering them through contemporary global joazz, funk and pop.
Sept. 25., 8 p.m.
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus, Bancroft Avenue at Telegraph. $20 - $32
642-9988
Eli’s Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland
(510) 655-6661
Doors open at 8 p.m.
Sept. 22: J.L. Stiles
Films
University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum
Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft Way
642-1412
“Treasures from the George Eastman House”
Various programs and a 16-film salute to little-known actresses.
Sept 22, 7:30 p.m. : “Backstairs” (1921)
8:55 p.m. : Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
$7 for one film; $8.50 for double bills. UC Berkeley students are $4/$5.50. Seniors and children are $4.50/6.00
Paramount Movie Classics
Summer 2000 Series
The evening includes a classic movie, walk-in music from the Wurlitzer
organ, a newsreel, cartoon, movie previews and the Paramount's prize
give-away game “Dec-O-Win.”
Sept. 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
$5. Shows at 8 p.m. 2025 Broadway, Oakland. (510) 465-6400.
Theater
“The Green Bird”
by Carlo Gozzi
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St.
Adapted by Theatre de la Jeune Lune and directed by Dominique Serrand.
“The Green Bird” runs through Oct. 27. For tickets contact the box office at 845-4700
“The Philanderer”
by George Bernard Shaw
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Ave.
Performed by the Aurora Theatre company, “The Philanderer” takes on the challenging and often humorous exploration of gender roles and the separations that exist between the sexes.
Tickets for preview showings are sold at $26. Showtimes run Wednesday through Saturday through October 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees show at 2 p.m., plus selected Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Admission for regular performances is $30. Student discounts are available. For tickets and information call 843-4822 or visit www.auroratheatre.org.
“MIMZABIM!”
Climate Theatre & Subterranean Shakespeare
La Vals Subterraniean 1834 Euclid, Berkeley
Through Oct. 14
Thursday - Saturday 8:00 p.m.
$12, Students $8
Julie Morgan Theatre
Fanny at Chez Panisse
Musical based on the book with opening proceeds going to the Verde Partnership Garden in Richmond.
Through Oct. 29
2640 College Ave., Berkeley
1-888-FANNY06
Exhibits
The Artistry of Rae Louise
Hayward
The Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery
3023 Shattuck Ave.
548-9286, ext. 307
Through Sept. 27
Rae Louise Hayward, one of the founders of The Art of Living Black, Bay Area Black Artist Annual Exhibition and Open Studios Tour.
Haywards’ art celebrates the beauty of African culture from its people to its music.
Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday 1-7 p.m., Saturday noon -4 p.m. and by appointment.
Traywick Gallery
1316 Tenth St.
527-1214
Charles LaBelle
Through Oct. 15
LaBelle’s new series of large-scale color photographs highlight nighttime nature in Hollywood. He recreates trees at night using a hand-held spotlight and playing on the beam across the leaves and branches. The opening reception will be held on September 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Blue Vinyl by Connie Walsh
Through Oct. 15
This multimedia project combines video, sound and printmaking to explore concepts of intimacy and its relation to private space.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-6 p.m. and Sundays 12-5 p.m.
A.C.C.I. Gallery
“Paperworks,” through Oct. 7.
A group exhibit of works by Carol Brighton, Vannie Keightley, Jean Hearst.
Opening Reception, Sept. 1, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 843-2527
Berkeley Art Center
“Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind,''
Through Nov. 12. An exhibit by Janette Faulkner exploring racial stereotypes in commercial imagery. Free. Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St., Berkeley. (510) 644-6893
California College of Arts and Crafts
Free. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oliver Art Center, 5212 Broadway, Oakland. 594-3712
Chi Gallery
“Alegres Cantos en Mi Ser (Songs of Joy in My Being)” through Sept. 30.
An exhibit of paintings depicting scenes of Afro-cuban music, by Susan Mathews. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 912-A Clay St., Oakland. (510) 832-4244.
Kala Institute
“Layerings: New Work by Four Kala Fellows” through Sept. 28. The 2000 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibitions, Part II of works by Margaret M. Kessler, Barbara Milman, Michele Muennig, and
David Politzer. Free. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Workshop Media Center
Gallery, 1060 Heinz Ave., Berkeley. (510) 549-2977
Readings
Rhyme & Reason Poetry Series
Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant
Second and fourth Sundays of each month. For open reading following featured readers, sign up at 2 p.m., readings begin at 2:30 p.m.
Readings at Cody’s
2454 Telegraph Ave.
Sept. 22, 7 p.m., Robert P. Johnson, the author reads from his book
“Thirteen Moons: A Year in the Wilderness.” At 1730 Fourth St.
Sept. 25. 7:30 p.m., Gerald Haslam discusses his novel “Straight White Ma le.”
Sept. 26. 7:30 p.m., Andre Schiffrin, the author, discusses his book “The
Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over
Publishing and Changed the Way We Read.”
Sept. 28. 7:30 p.m., Sadie Plant discusses her book “Writing on
Drugs.” Events are free and start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
(510) 845-7852
Nyingma Institute
1815 Highland Place
843-6812
Free
Rhyme and Reason Poetry Series
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
2621 Durant Ave.
2nd and 4th Sundays of each month.
Includes featured readers and open mike poetry. Free
2 p.m. sign-up. Program runs from 2:30 - 4 p.m.
Sept. 24: Jessie Beagle, Kirk Lumpkin
Oct. 15: Professor Ron Loewinsohn (Morrison Room, UC Main Library)
Oct. 29: Fernando Brito, Lara Dale
234-0727
Holloway Poetry Reading Series
8p.m., Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
For more information call 653-2439
Nov. 1: John Yau and Garrett Caples, books include “Forbidden Entries” and “My Symptoms”
Nov. 7: Marie Howe and Brian Glaser, “The Good Thief” and “What the Living Do”
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Ave.
548-2350
October 1, 3 p.m., Lawson Fusao Inada and Patricia Wakida duscuss with a slide presentation, the new Japanese American anthology “Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience”
Oct. 7, 7p.m., Kimi Kodani Hill presents with art slides from her grandfather. “Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata’s Art on Internment”
Tours
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Scientists and engineers guide visitors through the research areas of the laboratory, demonstrating emerging technology and discussing the research’s current and potential applications. A Berkeley lab tour usually lasts two hours and includes visits to several research areas. Popular tour sites include the Advanced Light Source, The National Center for Electron Microscopy, the 88-Inch Cyclotron, The Advanced Lighting Laboratory, and The Human Genome Laboratory. Reservations required at least two weeks in advance of tour.
Free. University of California, Berkeley.
486-4387
Berkeley City Club Tours
Guided tours through Berkeley’s City Club, a landmark building designed by architect Julia Morgan, designer of Hearst Castle.
$2. The fourth Sunday of every month except December, between noon to 4 p.m.
2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley.
848-7800
Golden Gate Live Steamers
Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size, run along a half mile of track in Tilden Regional Park. The small trains are owned and maintained by a non-profit group of railroad buffs who offer rides.
Free. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley.
486-0623
Oakland Historic walking tours
Runs through October.
The tours cover downtown Oakland and its historic waterfront. All tours begin promptly at 10 a.m. and last between an hour and an hour and a half. Old Oakland Historic Dist rict, Sept. 23. A walk through Oakland’s Victorian business district of the 1870s. Visit the Washington Inn, Ratto’s International Grocer and the Friends of the Library Book Store. Reservations encouraged. Meet in front of Ratto’s at Washington
and 9th Streets.
Preservation Park, Sept. 27. Preservation Park is a group of Victorian homes which replicate an authentic neighborhood of the 1870s. The homes have been restored and are used for offices and businesses. Other sites include the First Unitarian Church, Greene Library, and the Pardee home and gardens. Reservations encouraged. Meet at the park entrance, 13th and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Free. Call for reservations. Oakland. (510) 238-3234.
Tilden Regional Park
Sept. 24, 8 a.m.,“Early A.M. Walk,” Visit Laurel Canyon for birds and berries. For age 10 and older.
Sept. 24, 2 p.m., “Hoppers and Others,” Search for grasshoppers, their relatives, and other insects for a close-up look.
Sept. 30, 2 p.m. “Autumn Leaf Prints,” Bring a plain T-shirt to make a colorful memory of autumn. For age 5 and older. $2.
University of California at Berkeley Botanical Garden
The gardens have displays of exotic and native plants.
Botanical Garden Tours, Saturday and Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Meet at the Tour Orientation Center for a free docent tour. $3 general; $2 seniors; $1 children; free on Thursday. Daily, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Botanical Garden, Centennial Drive, behind Memorial Stadium, a mile below the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley. (510) 643-2755 or www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/
Dance
Yoshi’s
Unless otherwise noted, music at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200 or
(510) 762-BASS
Mark Morris Dance Group
“Four Saints in Three Acts” and “Dido & Aeneas”
Sept. 21-24 Zellerbach Hall
Music by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and American Bach Soloists
Tickets: $34 - $52
643-6714
University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum
Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft Way
642-1412
“Treasures from the George Eastman House”
Various programs and a 16-film salute to little-known actresses.
Sept 22, 7:30 p.m. : “Backstairs” (1921)
8:55 p.m. : Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
$7 for one film; $8.50 for double bills. UC Berkeley students are $4/$5.50. Seniors and children are $4.50/6.00
Paramount Movie Classics
Summer 2000 Series
The evening includes a classic movie, walk-in music from the Wurlitzer organ, a newsreel, cartoon, movie previews and the Paramount's prize
give-away game “Dec-O-Win.”
Sept. 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
$5. Shows at 8 p.m. 2025 Broadway, Oakland. (510) 465-6400.
“The Green Bird”
by Carlo Gozzi
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St.
Adapted by Theatre de la Jeune Lune and directed by Dominique Serrand.
“The Green Bird” runs through Oct. 27. For tickets contact the box office at 845-4700
“MIMZABIM!”
Climate Theatre & Subterranean Shakespeare
La Vals Subterraniean 1834 Euclid, Berkeley
Through Oct. 14
Thursday - Saturday 8:00 p.m.
$12, Students $8
Julie Morgan Theatre
Fanny at Chez Panisse
Musical based on the book with opening proceeds going to the Verde Partnership Garden in Richmond.
Through Oct. 29
2640 College Ave., Berkeley
1-888-FANNY06
Rhyme & Reason Poetry Series
Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant
Second and fourth Sundays of each month. For open reading following featured readers, sign up at 2 p.m., readings begin at 2:30 p.m.
Readings at Cody’s
2454 Telegraph Ave.
Sept. 22, 7 p.m., Robert P. Johnson, the author reads from his book
“Thirteen Moons: A Year in the Wilderness.” At 1730 Fourth St.
Sept. 25. 7:30 p.m., Gerald Haslam discusses his novel “Straight White Ma le.”
Sept. 26. 7:30 p.m., Andre Schiffrin, the author, discusses his book “The
Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over
Publishing and Changed the Way We Read.”
Sept. 28. 7:30 p.m., Sadie Plant discusses her book “Writing on
Drugs.” Events are free and start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
(510) 845-7852
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Ave.
548-2350
October 1, 3 p.m., Lawson Fusao Inada and Patricia Wakida discuss with a slide presentation, the new Japanese American anthology “Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience”
Oakland Historic walking tours
Runs through October.
The tours cover downtown Oakland and its historic waterfront.
All tours begin promptly at 10 a.m. and last between an hour and an hour and a half. Old Oakland Historic Dist rict, Sept. 23.
A walk through Oakland’s Victorian business district of the 1870s. Visit the Washington Inn, Ratto’s International Grocer and the Friends of the Library Book Store. Reservations encouraged. Meet in front of Ratto’s at Washington and 9th streets.
Preservation Park, Sept. 27. Preservation Park is a group of Victorian homes which replicate an authentic neighborhood of the 1870s. The homes have been restored and are used for offices and businesses. Other sites include the First Unitarian Church, Greene Library, and the Pardee home and gardens. Reservations encouraged. Meet at the park entrance, 13th and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Free. Call for reservations. Oakland. (510) 238-3234.
Tilden Regional Park
Sept. 24, 8 a.m.,“Early A.M. Walk,” Visit Laurel Canyon for birds and berries. For age 10 and older.
Sept. 24, 2 p.m., “Hoppers and Others,” Search for grasshoppers, their relatives, and other insects for a close-up look.
Sept. 30, 2 p.m. “Autumn Leaf Prints,” Bring a plain T-shirt to make a colorful memory of autumn. For age 5 and older. $2.
University of California at Berkeley Botanical Garden
The gardens have displays of exotic and native plants.
Botanical Garden Tours, Saturday and Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Meet at the Tour Orientation Center for a free docent tour. $3 general; $2 seniors; $1 children; free on Thursday. Daily, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Botanical Garden, Centennial Drive, behind Memorial Stadium, a mile below the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley. (510) 643-2755 or www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/
Dance
Yoshi’s
Unless otherwise noted, music at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200 or
(510) 762-BASS
Mark Morris Dance Group
“Four Saints in Three Acts” and “Dido & Aeneas”
Sept. 21-24 Zellerbach Hall
Music by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and American Bach Soloists
Tickets: $34 - $52
643-6714
