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Arts Calendar
Friday, August 23
Irate, For the Crown, Beneath the Ashes & Pain of Sleep
8 p.m.
924 Gillman St.
525-9926
$5
Deke Dickerson and the ecco-fonics & Calamity and Main
9:30 p.m.
The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave.
841-1424
$7
Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums with Ms. Carmen Getit
9:30 p.m.
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave.
8 p.m. dance lesson
525-5024 or www.ashkenaz.com
$12 door/ Free for 12 and under
Peppino D’Agostino
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com
$15.50 in advance, $16.50 at door
The Damnations & Loretta Lynch
9:30 p.m.
The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave.
841-1424
$7
Saturday, August 24
Anthony Brown Ensemble
Doors open 7:30 p.m. Show 8 p.m.
Berkeley Public Library 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck
Free Jazz Concert explores inspiration of Ralph Ellison.
981-6100
Free
California Brazil All-star Band
Brazil Camp Benefit
9 p.m.
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave.
525-5024 or www.ashkenaz.com
$10 door/ Free for 12 and under
John McCormick
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com
$15.50 in advance, $16.50 at door
New Millennium Strings, conducted by Laurien Jones
8 p.m.
A concert featuring The Hebrides, Op. 26 (Fingal’s Cave) by Mendelssohn; Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Op. 64, E minor, Loretta Taylor, soloist; Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun; and Children’s Corner Suite by Debussy.
526-3331
$10 General admission, $7 students and seniors, under 12 free
Phantom Limbs, Dead and Gone & Pitch Black
8 p.m.
924 Gillman St.
525-9926
$5
Sunday, August 25
Dan & Dale Zola Present The Great Night of Rumi
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
Celebrating Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi with spoken word, music and dance.
548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com
$15.50 in advance, $16.50 at door
Benefit for the Neibyl Proctor Library
Featuring Red Dust
3 to 5 p.m.
6501 Telegraph Ave.
Benefit for a progressive research center for teachers, students and activists.
595-7417
$5 to $10, sliding scale
BACA National Juried Exhibition
Through Sept. 21, Wed.-Sun. Noon to 5 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St. in Live Oak Park
40 artists from across the U.S. including 28 Bay Area artists.
644-6893
Free
"Before and After"
Reception 4 to 6 p.m.
Through Sept. 19
Albany Community Center and Library Galley 1249 Marin Ave.
Jim Hair's photographs of the San Diego Hells Angels motorcycle chapter from the 1970s.
524-9283
Freedom! Now!
Berkeley Arts Festival Gallery & Headquarters 2055 Center St.
Reception 6 to 8 p.m.
Through Aug. 25, Tues. - Sun., noon to 5 p.m.
Commemorates the work of those who struggled for justice and freedom from government/state repression.
841-2793
The Creation of People’s Park
Through Aug. 31, Mon. - Thurs., 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fri. 9 to 5 p.m.; Sat. 1 to 5 p.m. Sun. 3 to 7 p.m.
The Free Movement Speech Cafe, UC Berkeley campus
A photo exhibition, with curator Harold Adler.
hjadler@yahoo.com
Free
"New Work: Part 2, The 2001 Kala Fellowship Exhibition"
Through Sept. 7, Tues.-Fri. Noon to 5:30 p.m., Sat. noon - 4:30 p.m.
Kala Art Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave.
Featuring 8 Kala Fellowship winners, printmaking
549-2977
“If These Walls Could Talk”
Through Sept. 8
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California Campus (just below Grizzly Peak Blvd.)
See how various civilizations built all kinds of structures from mud huts to giant skyscrapers at this building exhibit.
642-5132
Admission: $8 for adults; $6 for ages 5-18, seniors and disabled; $4 for children 3-4; Free for children under 3, LHS Members and full-time Berkeley students.
