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The It List: 5 things to do in Berkeley this weekend

THEATRE FIRST’S ‘ORLANDO’  TheatreFirst’s production of ‘Orlando’ at the Live Oak Theatre in Berkeley is getting great reviews. Robert Hurwitt said it was “another terrific play by [Sarah] Ruhl in the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Mercury News‘ Pat Craig said the production was “rollicking good fun.” Based on the Virginia Woolf novel of the same […]

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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend

Lotus flowers at the Nyingma Institute. Its free July lecture series features Tibetan yoga instructor Santosh Philip Sunday. Photo: Nyingma Institute ‘SUPER CINEMA’ AT THE BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY  The Berkeley Public Library’s free film series “Super Cinema” continues, starting July 5. Each month on Friday afternoons at 3 p.m., the library explores a different theme. […]

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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend

Jumping rope on Juneteenth. Photo: Esteban Allard-Valdivieso BERKELEY’S JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL  The RD Bonds stage will be ringing with music this Sunday as Berkeley celebrates its annual Juneteenth festival, whose roots reach back to the 19th century. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the rebelling Confederate states, in January 1863, news […]