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Calendar of Events & Activities
Friday, Aug. 24
Annual Community Luncheon
of the League of Women Voters
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
199 Seawall Dr.
Senator Jackie Speier, 8th District, will be speaking. The League sponsors their Annual Community Luncheon to bring together business, university and community leaders with political officials and League members to discuss issues of mutual interest. $50. 843-8824, lwvbae@pacbell.net
Yiddish Conversation Group
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Ave.
644-6107 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/hhs/commsvc/seniors.htm
Even Stronger Women
1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Ave.
Free weekly cultural discussion class. This week: Poetry. 549-1879
Basic Electrical Theory and National Electrical Code
7 - 10 p.m.
Building Education Center
812 Page St.
Instructed by “Code Check” author/retired city of Oakland building inspector Redwood Kardon. $35. 525-7610
Free Legal Workshop
6 - 8 p.m.
Women’s Cancer Resource Center
3023 Shattuck Ave.
Learn about the Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disability Act, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and how the laws protect you from termination during an experience with cancer or other serious medical conditions. 601-4040 x302
Saturday, Aug. 25
Copwatch: Know Your Rights Training
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Copwatch Office
2022 Blake St.
Learn what your rights are when dealing with the police. Learn how to monitor the police safely.
548-0425
Astrojax Playday
1 - 4 p.m.
Lawrence Hall of Science
UC Berkeley
Astrojax is part yo-yo, part juggling balls and a lasso. The inventor, theoretical physicist Larry Show, will give a demonstration and instruction. Museum admission $3 - $7. 642-5132
Cerrito Creek Work Party
10 a.m.
Meet at Creekside Park (south end of Belmont Street), El Cerrito
Join Friends of Five Creeks in removing brush to make a new trail along Cerrito Creek. Bring work gloves and clippers if you have them.
848-9358, f5creeks@aol.com, www.fivecreeks.org.
Travel Careers Class
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Vista Community College
2020 Milvia St.
Vista’s annual one-day class for the public on careers in the travel industry. A full-day seminar. $5.50 981-2931 www.vistacollege.edu
Sunday, Aug. 26
Healing
6 p.m.
Tibetan Nyingma Institute
1815 Highland Place
Sylvie Gretchen on “Healing Mind.” Free. 843-6812
West Berkeley Market
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
University Ave., between 3rd and 4th Streets
Family-oriented weekly market. Crafts, music, produce, and specialty foods. 654-6346
3rd Annual Berkeley World Music Festival
noon - 6 p.m.
Durant Ave., between Telegraph and Bowditch
Carnival and block party festival with World Music bands, performers and dancers. 649-9500 www.taasite.org
Monday, Aug. 27
East Bay Heritage Quilters
7:30 p.m.
First Unitarian Church
1 Lawson Road-Moeser Lane @ Arlington, Kensington
Lecture: On the Road to Quiltmaking, a Personal Journey
Non-members $3. 834-3706
Tuesday, Aug. 28
Berkeley High
Freshman Orientation
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Berkeley Community Theater
Corner of Allston Way and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Incoming ninth graders take a tour of campus, get student I.D. cards and lockers, and learn about extracurricular activities available at Berkeley High. Students with last names beginning with A-L attend from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Students with last names beginning with M-Z attend from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Berkeley Camera Club
7:30 p.m.
Northbrae Community Church
941 The Alameda
Share your slides and learn what other photographers are doing. Monthly field trips. 525-3565
Free Early Music Group
10 - 11:30 a.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Ave.
Small group sings madrigals and other voice harmony every Tuesday morning. 655-8863
— compiled by Guy Poole
Poetry Through Time II
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell St.
Bay Area poets Opal Palmer Adisa, Phyllis Koestenbaum, Reuven Goldfarb, and Martha Evans will read. A brief open reading will conclude the program. 549-6950 www.magnesmuseum.org
Community Health Commission
6:45 - 9:30 p.m.
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis St.
Environmental Imapct Report (EIR) for Alta Bates Expansion. 644-6109
