Other events include the Head West outdoor market at Fourth Street, a book signing with Mandy Aftel and a silent film showing with live music played by UC Berkeley students.
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Around Berkeley: Thirsty Thursday, First Friday, Tricks or Treats on Russell Street
Other things to do include seeing a spooky play in the basement of a Northside pizza shop and Berkeley’s first-ever Comic Con.
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Around Berkeley: Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow, pumpkin patch, music at the Berkeley Flea Market
Other events include a First Friday Block Party at Gilman District, a free community day at BAMPFA and a plant sale at the Botanic Garden at Tilden.
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Around Berkeley: Celebrations of Brazilian culture and vegan food; Gilman block party
Other events include the opening of ACCI Gallery’s group photography exhibit ‘Water is Sacred’ and the release of Oakland vocalist and composer Adrienne Shamszad’s second album, ‘Wash It All Away.’
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Around Berkeley: N’goni master, pet adopt-a-thon, Cal’s ugliest building, puppet show
Other events include a showing of Disney’s Strange World’ and art exhibit openings at 120710 and UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
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‘A creative safe house’: Former Cal computer science professor opens experimental art gallery in West Berkeley
West Berkeley’s newest art gallery wants to encourage artists to take risks. Its first exhibition, Working Craft, closes Saturday.
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Around Berkeley: Foodieland night market, First Fridays at Gilman, Latin dance party
Other events include a birthday bash for Vice Mayor Ben Bartlett and path-a-thon held by the Berkeley Path Wanderers Association.
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Berkeley’s Gilman District is launching its first street fair this Sunday
The kid-friendly street fair will offer art, shopping and food trucks on three closed-down blocks of Fifth and Camelia streets.
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Quilts, corsets and yarn bombs: 8 Berkeley needlecraft shops catering to the crafty
Stores serving sewers, crocheters, dressmakers and other needleworkers form a tightly knit community in Berkeley.
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Vacant Pacific Steel site could be home to new life sciences campus
The Gilman Forge project would redevelop a 10-acre site along I-80 in Berkeley, including the steel plant that shut down in 2018.
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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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At Berkeley’s new game space for grownups, you can be a treasure-hunting, rope-swinging mole
Gamers have to cooperate to succeed at Game On, a Gilman District venture formed by three Berkeley childhood buddies.
