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Iris Kwok

Iris Kwok covers the environment for Berkeleyside through a partnership with Report for America. A former music journalist, her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Classical Voice, among other publications. In her spare time, you can find her petting street cats or playing cello. She joined Berkeleyside in June 2022.

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Free Shakespeare returns to John Hinkel Park in North Berkeley

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok June 02, 2023, 12:02 p.m.June 2, 2023

Inferno Theatre’s production of ‘The Tempest’ will run through June 11 in the recently renovated park.

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Squished newts are drowning at bottom of leaky UC Botanical Garden pond

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok June 01, 2023, 11:17 a.m.June 2, 2023

The garden is trying to raise $150,000 to seal the 80-year-old pond’s cracks, which the newts are getting stuck in, plug sinkholes and resurface the basin.

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Around Berkeley: Geologic history talk, Berkeley Symphony concert, old-timey bluegrass

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert June 01, 2023, 8:42 a.m.June 1, 2023

Other events in Berkeley include an ABBA-themed disco and a performance by Grammy-winning Tuareg musicians.

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An octopus and a ‘Doof Wagon’ rolled through Berkeley Sunday during annual kart race

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 30, 2023, 4:12 p.m.May 30, 2023

The 1.5-block race, which starts on Merced Street, attracted about 100 spectators this year. Prizes were awarded for “best braker” and “safest run.”

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Around Berkeley: A Robin Hood musical for kids, a tea tasting and bagpipes and fiddles

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 25, 2023, 11:02 a.m.May 31, 2023

Other events include a Kwame Alexander book talk and a retrospective of work from Kala Art Institute’s co-founder.

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Live rabid bat found by Berkeley dad wows 4-year-old daughter

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 22, 2023, 12:03 p.m.May 28, 2023

“I was just worried about it,” Eliana said of the bat her father found on the stairs of their central Berkeley home. Residents are warned not to touch wild animals.

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Bay Area Children’s Theatre closes its curtains after 19 ‘charming’ years

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 19, 2023, 3:43 p.m.May 19, 2023

The downtown Berkeley theater, burdened by rising operating costs and the end of pandemic relief funds, has announced its closure “effective immediately.”

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Around Berkeley: Himalayan Fair, bike to work, Green Home Tour

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert May 18, 2023, 9:44 a.m.May 31, 2023

Other events include Scottish fiddling at Freight & Salvage and a cooking demo at the Downtown Berkeley Farmers Market.

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Berkeley’s newest murals celebrate Sinbad the Sailor, the undocumented and unafraid — and bagels

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 12, 2023, 2:23 p.m.May 16, 2023

Four big public artworks installed this spring highlight the Ohlone people, immigrants, poetry and the Boichik Bagel Factory.

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Around Berkeley: Open Studios, a big book sale and ‘hats and high tea’ for Mother’s Day

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert May 11, 2023, 9:54 a.m.May 18, 2023

Other events include a sale of not-quite-perfect ceramics from the Berkeley Potters Guild and a Ukrainian-centric production of Fiddler on the Roof.

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Her ancestors fought to live in Berkeley. Now, she’s showcasing Chinese American history here

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 08, 2023, 3:58 p.m.May 9, 2023

White neighbors tried to block Aimee Baldwin’s great-grandparents from buying a home on McKinley Avenue. A show she’s co-curating tells their story, and others’.

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Workers at Berkeley’s Ecology Center have voted to unionize

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok May 04, 2023, 4:27 p.m.May 4, 2023

Twelve workers at the 54-year-old Ecology Center, which runs Berkeley’s three farmers markets and a store on San Pablo Avenue, have voted to join the IWW.

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