
YEAR OF THE SNAKE Thank your lucky stars that you don’t need to brave Beijing Railway Station, reportedly the busiest spot on Earth this weekend, to find Lunar New Year celebrations. Berkeleyans can instead stroll over to Solano Avenue for a Lunar New Year parade and performance celebrating the Year of the Snake on Sunday. The performances kick off at 1o a.m. in Landmark Theatre’s Albany Twin, and include acrobatics by members of the SF Circus, Chinese dance by Ah-Lan Dance and Lion Dance and a martial arts display by Golden Lion. After the performance, there will be a parade up the entire length of Solano (on the sidewalk), starting at noon. Performance at Albany Twin, 1115 Solano Avenue, Albany, at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
YOUNG PEOPLE, OLD MUSIC California’s oldest youth orchestra, Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, holds its winter concert on Saturday at the First Congregational Church at 8 p.m. The program, conducted by Ramadanoff, is Brahms’ Double Concerto for violin and cello, and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. Florin Parvulescu, violin, and Amos Yang, cello, from the San Francisco Symphony, are the soloists. The 95 musicians in the orchestra are aged 12 to 21 and come from 29 different Bay Area cities. Tickets are $15, $12 for students and seniors. First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley.
Be sure to check out these other listings previously featured on Berkeleyside:
Chester “CT” Thompson plays Freight & Salvage Friday
John Dies at the End opens at Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas on Friday
Our Practical Heaven exposes family undercurrents at the Aurora
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