Arts Listings
Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay
50 YEARS OF GREAT ARTHOUSE CINEMA
Pacific Film Archive continues its series of classic foreign and arthouse cinema from Janus Films with three screenings this weekend: Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water (1962) at 7 p.m. Friday; Juan Antonio Bardem’s Death of a Cyclist (Spain, 1955) at 9 p.m. Friday; Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (Denmark, 1943) at 3 p.m. Sunday; and Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957) at 6-5 p.m. Sunday. 2575 Bancroft Way. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu.
‘METANOIA, A UNIVERSALIST MASS’
Local composer Daniel Zwiekel ben Avram will premiere “Metanoia, A Universalist Mass” as a benefit for the School of the Americas Watch at 7 p.m. Saturday at St. Joseph the Worker Church. $10 donation.1640 Addison St. (925) 427-9611.
KENYAN NOVELIST READS IN OAKLAND
Kenyan novelist, playwright and poet Ngugi wa Thiong’o will read from his latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, at 2 p.m. Saturday at the African American Museum and Library. 659 14th Street, Oakland. 637-0200.
‘WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BROOKLYN’
Gary Lapow brings his multi-media musical memoir of life in the 1940s and ’50s—Coney Island, stickball, doo wop, and the Brooklyn Dodgers—to the Jewish Community Center at 4 p.m. Sunday. $12-$15. 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley.848-0237.
