
MORE SALAD The 11th annual Edible Schoolyard sale takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. It features delicious food, live music, student-led tours, raffe prizes and, as you’d expect, plenty of plants for your garden. Gardening advice for novices to experts is on hand as well. Activities are aimed at both children and adults. Edible Schoolyard, King Middle School, 1781 Rose St.
SOUND OF MUSIC It’s a weekend for youthful orchestras in Berkeley. The Young People’s Symphony Orchestra’s Spring Concert and silent auction is on Saturday, May 11 (the auction starts at 6:30 p.m.; the concert at 8 p.m.), at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way. The YPSO is performing the Khachaturian Violin Concerto, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and Shostakovich’s grand Fifth Symphony. A slightly older student group, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, is holding two benefit concerts on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 at Hertz Concert Hall on camps. It will be performing Bloch’s Schelomo and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on both nights at 8 p.m.
And don’t forget other happenings we have featured previously on Berkeleyside:
Berkeley Art Center showcases sculpture in new show
Bites: food happenings around the inner East Bay
Big Screen Berkeley: PlayGround Film Festival
Steven Emerson steps out of the studio, and other music gigs
New South Bank Library opening on Saturday
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