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Calendar
Thursday, Oct. 3
Nutrition Career Open House - Institution of Educational Therapy
7 to 8:30 p.m.
706 Gilman St.
558-1711
Free.
Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master
Berekley Shambhala Center
7 p,m.
2288 Fulton St.
(415)887-2820 for more info.
Investing in the Future
7:30 p.m.
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman St.
Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs.
Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654
Free.
How to Defeat CommitmentPhobia:
In Yourself or the One You Love
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Berkeley Richmond Jewish
Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.
Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.
848-0237 Ext. 127
$10 public. $8 BRJCC members.
Friday, Oct. 4
Peace Corp. Volunteer Returns
Triple Rock Brewery “Happy Hour”
5 p.m.
1920 Shattuck Ave.
(800)424-8580
Free.
International Day of No Prostitution
6 to 8 p.m.
Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium,
UC Berkeley
Bay Area rally and march
against prostitution.
358-2725
Resist Oil & Mining
6 to 10 p.m.
The roof, 1916A Martin Luther King Jr. Way, at Berkeley Way
Project Underground’s sixth birthday party and annual prize drawing.
Entertainment, music, drinks, childcare. Wheelchair accessible.
705-8981 or maistella@moles.org
$15 suggested donation.
Saturday, Oct. 5
Berkeley National Lab Open House
10a.m. to 4 p.m.
1 Cyclotron Rd.
Live music, food, lectures, job fair, etc.
495-2222
Free.
Leading Edge Technology Conferece
9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Haas School of Business, Arthur Andersen Auditorium, 2200 Piedmont Ave.
594-748 for more info.
East Bay Solar Home Tour
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cedar Rose Park (first stop)
Attendees collect a map to guide them
on the self-guided tour—eight homes in Albany, Berkeley and Oakland in all.
531-1184
$15 per car.
Sunday, Oct. 6
Eckanka Worship Service
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
East Bay ECK Center, 3052 Telegraph, near Whole Foods
“How to Survive Spiritually in Our Times”
549-2807
War Tax Resistance Information
and Support Gathering
4 to 6:30 p.m.
1305 Hopkins St., near Peralta.
Join others who refuse to pay taxes for U.S. militarism at this monthly
potluck supper.
843-9877
Free: bring food or drink to share.
Thursday, Oct. 3
Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com
$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door.
Figa Productions DJ Night
9:30 p.m.
The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave.
$7. $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over.
Saturday, Oct. 5
Leon Bates
7:30 p.m.
Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 10th St.
Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin.
451-0775. www.fourseasonsconcerts.com
$25-$35.
All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle
8 p.m.
924 Gilman St.
525-9926
$5.
House Jacks
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com
$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door.
Sunday, Oct. 6
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com
$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door.
Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers
4:30 p.m.
Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St.
845-5373
$10-15.
Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies
and Lesser of Two
8 p.m.
924 Gilman St.
525-9926
$5.
"Balancing Acts"
Through Oct. 10
Gallery 555, 555 12th St.,
Oakland City Center
Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night
features Ann Weber's works
made of cardboard.
http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.
Free.
“Hunger: What will you do about it?”
Through Oct. 30
Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Civic Center Building
2180 Milvia St., 5th floor
Featuring 40 photographs
by Berkeley artist David Bacon.
834-3663, Ext. 338,
uchanse@secondharvest.org
Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work
Though Oct. 13
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way
On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.
642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.
$4 UC Berkeley students.
“Recent Acquisitions”
Oct. 13 through Dec. 14
Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m.
Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St.
848-0181
Free.
Misch Kohn - Celebrating
60 Years of Printmaking
Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m.
Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave.
549-2977, kala@kala.org
Nancy Salz
Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,
10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St.
848-3822
Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya
Through Nov. 1
Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m.
Gathering Tribes Gallery
1573 Solano Ave.
Acrylic/air brush paintings
by this Native American artist.
528-9038
Threads: Five artists who
use stitching to convey ideas
Oct. 6 through Dec. 15, Wed.-Sun., noon to 5 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center
Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St.
Information: www.berkeleyartcenter.org, 644-6893
Free.
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Through Oct. 12
Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m.
LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre
1834 Euclid Ave.
234-6046
$10.
The House of Blue Leaves
Through Oct. 20
Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater
2015 Addison St.
647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX
$10-$54.
The Shape of Things
Through Oct. 20
Aurora Theatre Company
2081 Addison St.
Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love.
843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations
$26-$35.
Ceramics - Opening Reception
Through Nov. 17
3 to 5 p.m.
A New Leaf Gallery, 1286 Gilman St.
525-7621
Free.
Thursday, Oct. 3
Brenda Hillman
12:10 p.m.
Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB
UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”.
http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events
Free.
Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore
6 p.m.
Maud Fife Room,
315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley
Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002.
jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu
Free.
Friday, Oct. 4
Katherine Forrest
7:30 p.m.
Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle
Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon”
559-9184
Free.
Saturday, Oct. 5
“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction”
7:30 p.m.
Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle
Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers.
559-9184
Free.
Sunday, October 6
Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers
4:30 p.m.
Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.
845-5373
$15. $12 students & seniors.
$10 Jazz school students.
Tuesday, Oct. 8
Daniel Wilkinson
7:30 p.m.
Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave.
Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.”
(617) 351-3243
Thursday, Oct. 10
Daniel Wilkinson
7:30 p.m.
Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave.
Wilkinson, author of “Silence on the Mountain” will present slide show.
843-3533
Free.
Friday, Oct. 11
Beth Glick-Rieman
7:30 p.m.
Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.
at Colusa Circle
Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”.
559-9184
Free.
Friday, Oct. 18
Storyteller Nancy Schimmel
Poets, singers, musicians and storytellers are invted.
7:30 to 10 p.m.
Fellowship Cafe, 1924 Cedar St.
540-0898
$5 to 10 donation.
Sunday, Oct. 6
Cinemath Films
Pacific Film Archive Theater
5:30 p.m.
2575 Bancroft Way
642-1412
$7 for one film. $ 8.50 for double bills.