Other events include a Berkeley Improv student showcase, hip-hop collage-making session and tour of a glass-making studio.
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Around Berkeley: Pottery sale, new festival in Civic Center Park, 150 years of art depicting the Cal campus
Other events include a showing of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away at BAMPFA, Berkeley High reunion and talk by community historian Steve Finacom.
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Around Berkeley: Racing cardboard boats, making zines, saving Street Spirit
Other events include the opening of ACCI Gallery’s flight-themed group exhibit and an outdoor showing of Puss in Boots.
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Berkeley is searching for its first ever youth poet laureate
A youth poet laureate and vice laureate will be chosen in January through a new Berkeley Library program. The city’s second ever adult laureate will be selected in December.
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Kids can eat lunch free 3 days a week at the Berkeley library this summer
Berkeley’s Central Library is piloting a free lunch program for kids 18 and under. Kids can also eat free in the summer at some schools and community centers.
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After 5 years, Berkeley’s first-ever poet laureate is calling it quits
The city wants to crown a new poet with laurels — and this time the job will come with formal duties and $10,000. You can apply starting July 1.
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Remembering James Henry Jacobs Jr., Berkeley’s first African American librarian
He began the Summer Reading Program and pushed to desegregate the library’s collection. Humble, humorous and multi-talented, he spent the Korean War interpreting for the U.S. Army in Japan, where he competed in judo at the highest level.
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Shop Talk: Beloved Berkeley pet food store loses dogged battle to internet retailers; Modena Salon is moving
Animal Farm Discount Pet Foods was a mainstay on the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Cedar Street for 35 years. Even the owner’s parrot felt it was time to go.
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Watch the World Cup at your Berkeley library — and learn about human rights, FIFA corruption and Qatar
The Berkeley Public Library is hosting game watch parties and a virtual panel examining sportswashing and controversies in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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Berkeley Tool Lending Library will end late fees, go fully fine-free
Berkeley Public Library stopped charging late fees for teen and adult books in 2018. Now, residents can check out tools, from ice cream makers to weed whackers, without worrying about overdue fees.
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Remembering Regina Minudri, former director of Berkeley Public Library
She started the Tool Lending Library, an adult literacy program and was the first library director in California to turn to voters to secure library tax funding.
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More time to browse books: Berkeley Public Library opens more branches
The Tarea Hall Pittman/South Branch will open for in-person browsing on June 22 and the Claremont branch will open on June 28.
