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Arts Calendar
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16
FILM
Alternative Visions: Hy Hirsh and the Fifties: Jazz and Abstraction in Beat Era Film at 7:30 p.m at the Pacific Film Archive. Cost is $4 members, UC students, $5 UC faculty, staff, seniors, disabled, youth, $8 adults. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
READINGS AND LECTURES
Maira Kalman, author of a dozen children’s books, introduces the latest adventures of Pete the Dog, “Smartypants: Pete in School,” at 7 p.m. at Cody’s Books, 1730 Fourth St. 559-9500. www.codysbooks.com
Jeffrey and Rhoda Makoff discuss how to make big decisions in their new book, “Get off the Fence,” at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes and Noble. 644-0861.
Steve Martinot will discuss “The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance,” at 7:30 p.m. Black Oak Books. 486-0698. www.blackoakbooks.com
MUSIC AND DANCE
Mimi Fox, solo guitar, at 8 p.m. at Downtown. 649-3810.
Comedy Showcase, with Tony Sparks, Phil Puthumana, “The Curry Comic,” Ian Jensen, Kevin Avery and Tessie Chua at 8 p.m. at Ashkenaz. Cost is $9. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
Dayna Stephens House Jam at The Jazz House. Donation $5. 649-8744. www.thejazzhouse.com
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17
FILM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “Fear of Fear” at 5:30 and 9:10 p.m. and “Chinese Roulette” at 7:20 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive. Cost is $4 members, UC students, $5 UC faculty, staff, seniors, disabled, youth, $8 adults. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
READINGS AND LECTURES
John Stauber, investigative reporter and founder and director of the Center for Media & Democracy, discusses “Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq,” at 7:30 p.m. at Cody’s Books. 845-7852. www.codysbooks.com
Huston Smith and Phil Cousineau discuss “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life,” at 7:30 p.m. at Black Oak Books. 486-0698. www.blackoakbooks.com
Calligraphy Lecture and Demonstration with Georgianna Greenwood and Carla Tenret, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St. 528-1709. www.friendsofcalligraphy.org
MUSIC AND DANCE
Wednesday Noon Concert Mozart Clarinet Quintet, at the Chevron Auditorium at International House, corner of Bancroft and Piedmont Aves. Admission is free. 642-4864.
Christopher O’Riley’s “Radiohead” Innovative pianist performs a program of music by British rock group Radiohead, transcribed by O'Riley for solo piano. At 8 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall, UC Campus. Tickets are $14-$28. 642-0212. www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
Creole Belles at 8:30 p.m., with a Cajun dance lesson with Cheryl McBride at 8 p.m., at Ashkenaz. Cost is $9. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
Da Vinci’s Notebook, comedic a cappella quartet, at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Cost is $15.50 in advance, $16.50 at the door. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.org
Patrick Greene Trio at 8 p.m. at Jupiter. 848-8277.
Jules Broussard, Bing Nathan and Ned Boynton at 8 p.m. at Downtown. 649-3810.
Love Rhino, Electric Jesus, 3 Prayers at 9:30 p.m. at Blakes on Telegraph. Cost is $6. 848-
0886. www.blakesontelegraph.com
Nicole McRory at 9:30 p.m. at Beckett’s Irish Pub, 2271 Shattuck Ave. 647-1790. becketts-
irishpub.com
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18
FILM
Genetic Screenings: “Gattaca” at 7:30 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive. Cost is $4 members, UC students, $5 UC faculty, staff, seniors, disabled, youth, $8 adults. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Art Center Film Festival: Exploring Relationships and Aging, at 7 p.m. at the Berkeley Art Center in Live Oak Park. Tickets are $5-$10 sliding scale. 644-6893. www.berkeleyartcenter.org
“Mai’s America,” A documentary about a Vietnamese exchange student by Marlo Poras, will be shown at 7 p.m. at 2060 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Campus. Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies. 642-3609. cseas@uclink.berkeley.edu
READINGS AND LECTURES
Curator’s Talk on Gene(sis) with Constance Lewallen, Senior Curator for Exhibitions, at 12:15 p.m. in Gallery 2, and Guided Tour at 5:30 p.m. Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way. Cost is $8, free to UC staff, faculty and students. 643-6494. tctorres@uclink.berkeley.edu
Tony Cohan discusses “Native State,” at 7:30 p.m. at Black Oak Books. 486-0698. www.blackoakbooks.com
Amelia Warren Tyagi on “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke,” at 7 p.m. at Cody’s Books, 1730 Fourth St. 845-7852. www.codysbooks.com
Word Beat Reading at 7 p.m. featuring David Gollub and Sparrow 13, followed by an open mic, at Mediterraneum Caffe, 2475 Telegraph Ave. 526-5985 or 205-1749.
Tony Rowell, son of Galen Rowell, introduces Barbara Rowell’s “Flying South: A Pilot’s Inner Journey,” her 25,000-mile 57-leg journey through Latin America, at 7:30 p.m. at Easy Going Travel Shop and Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave at Rose, 843-3533.
MUSIC AND DANCE
Slaid Cleaves, Texas folk-roots at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage. Cost is $15.50 in advance, $16.50 at the door. 548-1761. www.freightandsalvage.org
James Mathis Knockdown Society at 9:30 p.m. at The Starry Plough.Cost of $6. 841-2082. www.starryploughpub.com
Keni El Lebrijano, flamenco guitar, at 8:30 p.m. at Downtown. 649-3810.
Autana at 9:30 p.m. at Beckett’s Irish Pub, 2271 Shattuck Ave. 647-1790. beckettsirishpub.com
Porch Life performs at the 1923 Teahouse at 8 p.m. Suggested donation of $7-$15. 644-2204. www.epicarts.org
FRIDAY, SEPT. 19
CHILDREN
Dog Days of Summer stories and songs at 10:30 a.m. at Barnes and Noble. 644-0861.
FILM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “Fox and His Friends,” at 7 and 9:25 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive. Cost is $4 members, UC students, $5 UC faculty, staff, seniors, disabled, youth, $8 adults. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
“They Live,” John Carpenter’s cult classic, at 8 p.m. at the Long Haul, a reading room, library and community center in South Berkeley located at 3124 Shattuck Ave. Wheelchair accessible. 540-0751. www.thelonghaul.org
Berkeley Art Center Film Festival: Political and Social Commentary, at 7 p.m. at the Berkeley Art Center in Live Oak Park. Tickets are $5-$10 sliding scale. 644-6893. www.berkeleyartcenter.org
READINGS AND LECTURES
William Greider discusses “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy,” at 12:30 p.m. at Cody’s Books. 845-7852. www.codysbooks.com
Michael Parenti reveals the secret life of the empire in “The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome,” at 7:30 p.m. at Cody’s Books. 845-7852. www.codysbooks.com
Mary Watkins is featured at Fellowship Cafe & Open Mic at 7:30 p.m. at Fellowship Hall, Cedar and Bonita Sts. Poets, singers, and performance artists are invited to sign up for the open mic. A donation of $5-10 is requested.
MUSIC AND DANCE
Ravi Shankar The legendary sitarist performs with his daughter, Anoushka, at 8 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall, UC Campus. Tickets are $36-$68. 642-9988. www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
Jazz Singer’s Collective, with Walter Bankovitch, piano, Bill Douglass, bass, and Steve Robertson, drums, at 8 p.m. at the Jazzschool. Tickets are $7-$12 and are available from 507-2498.
Donna the Buffalo performs roots rock at 9 p.m. at Ashkenaz. Cost is $13. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
Kris Delmhorst, contemporary songcraft, at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Cost is $15.50 in advance, $16.50 at the door. 548-1761. www.freightandsalvage.org
CWK Trio performs acoustic modern jazz at 8 p.m. at The Jazz House. Suggested donation is $8-$12 sliding scale. 649-8744.
www.thejazzhouse.org
Redmeat and The Bellyachers at 9:30 p.m. at The Starry Plough. Cost is $7. 841-2082. www.starryploughpub.com
Michael Bluestein Trio at 9 p.m. at Downtown. 649-3810.
JND, Bray, and Thriving Ivory at 9:30 p.m. at Blakes on Telegraph. Cost is $7. 848-0886. www.blakesontelegraph.com
Municipal Waste, Capitalist Casualties, Caustic Christ, Voetsek, Agents of Satan, Strung Up at 8 p.m. at 924 Gilman St., an all-ages, member-run, no alcohol, no drugs, no violence club. Cost is $5. 525-9926.
Woman at 9:30 p.m. at Beckett’s Irish Pub, 2271 Shattuck Ave. 647-1790. beckettsirishpub.com
Reorchestra at 8 p.m. at Jupiter, 2181 Shattuck Ave. 848-8277.
Mokai and MarQue at the 1923 Teahouse at 8 p.m. Suggested donation of $7-$15, no one turned away for lack of funds. 644-2204. www.epicarts.org
SATURDAY, SEPT. 20
Euripides’ “Medea,” performed by the National Theatre of Greece at 8 p.m. at the Greek Theatre, UC Campus. Pre-performance talk with UC Berkeley Dept. of Classics Professor Mark Griffith at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $32 and $62. 642-0212. www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
EXHIBITION
Photographs of Inner Mongolia by Michael Sun, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the 3rd Floor Community Room, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge.
CHILDREN
Kids on the Block Puppet Show, promoting acceptance and understanding of physical and cultural differences at 2 p.m. at the Hall of Health, 2230 Shattuck Ave., lower level. Suggested donation $3. Children under 3 free. 549-1564.
FILM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “Mother Goes to Heaven,” at 7 and 9:15 p.m., at the Pacific Film Archive. Cost is $4 members, UC students, $5 UC faculty, staff, seniors, disabled, youth, $8 adults. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Art Center Film Festival: Bums’ Paradise, at 7 p.m. at the Berkeley Art Center in Live Oak Park. Tickets are $5-$10 sliding scale. 644-6893. www.berkeleyartcenter.org
READINGS AND LECTURES
Joe Conason, political columnist, reveals the right-wing in “Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth,” at 7:30 p.m. at Cody’s Books. 845-7852. www.codysbooks.com
MUSIC AND DANCE
San Francisco Early Music Society presents Anne Azema, soprano, and Shira Kammen, vielles and harp, at 8 p.m. at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave. Tickets are $22 for SFEMS members and Seniors, $25 for non-members, $10 for students. 528-1725. www.sfems.org
Trinity Chamber Concerts, with Tom Rose, clarinet, and Miles Graber, perform an all English music program, at 8 p.m. at Trininy Chapel, 2320 Dana St. Admission by donation, $12 general, $8 students, senoirs, disabled. No one turned away. 549-3864.
Remember Shakti with John McLaughlin, guitar, and Zakir Hassain, tabla, members of the original Shakti fusion ensemble of the 1970s, are joined by U. Shrinivas, electric mandolin and V. Selvaganesh, ghatam and kanjira, at 8 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall, UC Campus. Tickets are $26-$56 and are available from 642-9988. www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
Good Night! An Evening of Spirituals at Hamilton Hall, 14th and Castro Sts, Oakland. Tickets are $25-$50, and benefit the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, a liberal religious congregation serving Oakland since 1869. For more information call 524-1417.
Women Singing Out! presented by Rose Street House of Music and East Bay Pride at 8 p.m. at the Oakland Metro, 201 Broadway at 2nd in Jack London Square. Tickets are $8-15 sliding scale. 594-4000 ext. 687.
“Jah Music for the People” at the 1923 Teahouse at 8 p.m. Suggested donation of $7-$15. 644-2204. www.epicarts.org
Suzy Thompson and Friends at 2 p.m. at Down Home Music, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito. 525-2129. www.downhomemusic.com
Barry and Alice Oliver, contemporary folk at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Cost is $16.50 in advance, $17.50 at the door. 548-1761. www.freightandsalvage.org
Brightback, Joanna Newsom, Sean Hayes at 9:30 p.m. at The Starry Plough. Cost is $6. 841-2082. www.starryploughpub.com
Pietro Lusvardi on the contrabasso at 8 p.m. at The Jazz House. Suggested donation is $6-$15 sliding scale. 649-8744. www.thejazzhouse.org
Steve Smith-Mike Zilber Group with special guests Dave Liebman and Fareed Haque at 8 p.m. at the Jazzschool. Tickets are $20-$25. 845-5373. www.jazzschool.com
Alphabet Soup, El Jefe at 9:30 p.m. at Blakes on Telegraph. Cost is $7. 848-0866. www.blakesontelegraph.com
Reggae Angels and Amandala Poets CD release party at 9 p.m. at Ashkenaz. Cost is $13-$20. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
Post Junk Trio at 8 p.m. at Jupiter 848-8277.
Scott Amendola with Nat Su and Devin Hoff at 9 p.m. at Downtown. 649-3810.
Nicole McRory at 9:30 p.m. at Beckett’s Irish Pub, 2271 Shattuck Ave. 647-1790. beckettsirishpub.com
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21
Euripides’ “Medea,” performed by the National Theatre of Greece. at 7 p.m. at the Greek Theatre, UC Campus. Pre-performance talk with UC Berkeley Dept. of Classics Professor Mark Griffith at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $32 and $62. 642-0212. www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
Oliver Ranch Tour, to benefit the Richmond Art Center. A special opportunity to visit a private reserve dedicated to site-specific sculpture. Cost is $95 per person, which includes a $50 donation to the Richmond Art Center. Reservations required. Call A New Leaf Gallery at 525-7621, or email info@sculpturesite.com
CHILDREN
Café Rumba, Afro-Cuban folkloric drums at 3:30 p.m. at La Peña Cultural Center. 849-2568. www.lapena.org
The Kids of the Dayton Tribune Meet Vanessa Thill and Kelly Reed, the 12-year-old founders of the Bay Area annual literary magazine, at 4 p.m. at Cody’s Books, 1730 Fourth St. 559-9500. www.codysbooks.com
FILM
“Homage to Chagall,” at 2 p.m. at the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St. Suggested donation $2. Peer led discussion following the film. 848-0327. www.brjcc.org
The Films of Germaine Dulac: “Ame d’Artiste” at 5:30 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive. Cost is $4 members, UC students, $5 UC faculty, staff, seniors, disabled, youth, $8 adults. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
READINGS AND LECTURES
Jim Campbell/Matrix 208: “Memory Array” at 3 p.m. in Gallery 1, Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way. Cost $8, free to UC staff, faculty and students. 643-6494. tctorres@uclink.berkeley.edu
Guided Tour: Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, at 2 p.m., Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way. 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Poetry at Cody’s with Jennifer Arin, Katherine Case, Y. Morales, Annie Stenzel, Jennifer Sweeney and Virginia Westover at 7:30 p.m. at Cody’s Books. Donation $2. 845-7852. www.codysbooks.com
Tom Farber reads from his novels “The Beholder” and “A Lover’s Quarrel: On Writing and the Writing Life” at 7:30 p.m. Black Oak Books. 486-0698.
www.blackoakbooks.com
MUSIC AND DANCE
Pebble Theory, Cilantro, Sun Chasing Shadows at 9:30 p.m. at Blakes on Telegraph. Cost is $3. 848-0886. www.blakesontelegraph.com
All Shoko Night, featuring the Natto Quartet and the Hikage-Segel Duo, at 8:15 p.m. at The Jazz House. Free, donations accepted. 649-8744. www.thejazzhouse.com
Paula West at 4:30 p.m. at the Jazz-school. Cost is $20-$25. 845-5373. www.jazzschool.com
Lucy Kaplansky with Nina Gerber, vocals with guitar accompaniment, at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Cost is $19.50 in advance, $20.50 at the door. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.org
The People with LZ Phoenix, Sol Americano and Dr. Masseuse at 9 p.m. at Ashkenaz. Cost is $10. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
Indian Classical Music with Jyoti Rout, Pandit Habib Khan, and Prof. Mohini Mohan Pattnaik at 7 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Tickets are $15-$20 available from 925-798-1300.
Kaarka seismic gypsy jazz at the 1923 Teahouse at 8 p.m. Suggested donation of $7-$15, no one turned away for lack of funds. 644-2204. www.epicarts.org
Americana Unplugged Series: The Whiskey Brothers at 8 p.m. at Jupiter. 848-8277.
