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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Working on the sets for the new production of Fortinbras, opening this weekend. Photo: Actor’s Ensemble of Berkeley FORTINBRAS Let’s be honest. Fortinbras is one of the more forgettable figures in Hamlet. He shows up just as Hamlet is dying and utters some unremarkable lines, marking him as the kind of upstanding, dull Norwegian prince […]
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Ivor Novello appearing in the doorway in a scene from Hitchcock’s The Lodger THE LODGER The Pacific Film Archive is showing Alfred Hitchcock’s 1926 film, The Lodger, on Friday, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. in a digitally restored print from the British Film Archive. Hitchcock called his third feature “the first true Hitchcock movie.” It was […]
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Artismobilus, a mobile art gallery and “art incubator”, will be part of Berkeley Spark on Saturday. Photo: Steve Rhodes Artismobilus, a mobile art gallery and “art incubator”, will be part of Berkeley Spark on Saturday. Photo: Steve Rhodes COLLECTOR ART SHOP ARTIST RECEPTION The Collector Art Shop on College Avenue is hosting an artists’ reception and […]
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Octopi fly through the sky during the Berkeley Kite Festival. Photo: California Travels BERKELEY KITE FESTIVAL The 28th Annual Berkeley Kite Festival & West Coast Kite Championships is this weekend, July 27 and 28, at the Cesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina. Sponsored by Highline Kites of Berkeley, the festival includes activities like kite […]
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Parks Make Life Better month is hosting an event this weekend. Image: BPD PARKS MAKE LIFE BETTER The City of Berkeley is hosting Parks Make Life Better month, and this weekend a celebration at San Pablo Park will cap off the festivities. Volunteers will be able to plant trees across Berkeley from 8 a.m. to […]
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A sample from one of the past annual Sketchcrawls. One is coming to Berkeley for the first time on Friday. Image: Sketchcrawl 1ST ANNUAL WEST COAST URBAN SKETCHERS’ SKETCHCRAWL The inaugural Sketchcrawl started in San Francisco in 2004, but in its nine years of global expansion – from France to South Korea to Texas – […]
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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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Artwork by Sarah Winkler, featured in the Cypress Tree Studios Open House. Photo: Sarah Winkler CYPRESS TREE STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE Spend an afternoon at Cypress Tree Studios this Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. The studio’s open house will include artwork by Sarah Winkler, Bob Bechtol, Pat Sonnino, Patricia Bruning, Thomas Richardson, and more, […]
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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 […]
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Bring Dad to Bug Days at UC Berkeley’s Botanical Garden to celebrate Father’s Day this weekend. Photo: UC Botanical Garden Bring Dad to Bug Days at UC Berkeley’s Botanical Garden to celebrate Father’s Day this weekend. Photo: UC Botanical Garden OJAI NORTH! MUSIC FESTIVAL Ojai North! is an eclectic festival of music and dance created […]
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LIVE OAK PARK FAIR Creativity and community are at the heart of the annual Live Oak Park Fair among the North Berkeley park’s heritage oaks and redwoods and alongside the charming Codornices Creek (above). The fair runs 10am-6pm this weekend, June 8-9. Expect to find affordable contemporary art, fine crafts, handcrafted jewelry and accessories, couture […]
