Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Toppa Top Thursdays

Club Six - CLOSED9PM - 2AM

DeeCee's Soul Shakedown & Jah Warrior Shelter Hi-Fi present Toppa Top Thursdays dancehall, reggae, & remixes every week Jah Warrior…

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Funky Diva

Velvet7:30pm

Funk it up with Funky Diva and start your weekend with some Bump n Grind. Funky Diva promises an eclectic patchwork of genres; Resident DJ…

Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Librarycall for details

Displays of original Beethoven manuscripts, first editions, a lock of the composer's hair, art and demonstrations of historical keyboards. Fifth…

408.808.2058

Freight 20th Annual Fiddle Summit

Roda Theatre7:30pm

"Dancing in the streets, drumming in the avenues, and singing on the boulevards: all of these and more are yours this week as Berkeley's arts…

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Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

San Jose Museum of Art11am - 5pm

Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon examines the development of robot iconography in fine art over the past 50 years. In 1920, the term robot…

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Digital Transformations

The Intel Museum9am-6pm

Explore through interactive exhibits how technologies used to capture images, communicate across distance and record sound have evolved over…

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Encore Thursdays

Various Locations in Berkeley4pm - 8pm

Free all night long, with DJ's J-Status, DJ Pee, DJ Izzace, and DJ Pete Nice mixing all your savvy beats to dance to all night long!

Jorge De Hoyos & Tunuviel Luv

The Garage8pm

Jorge De Hoyos & Tunuviel Luv also featuring choreographer Pearl Marill an experimental dance-theater piece exploring concepts of time and…

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Maetrik | Space Chronic EP Record Release Event

The Endup10p-4a; FREE B4 midnight, $10 or RSVP for FREE B4 1aTechno | House | Tech-House | M…

Phonic and Spektikal will be passing it on for everyone to inhale the "Space Chronic", Maetrik's latest mind-probing EP released on Claude VonStroke's…

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Down Like This

Temple10pm-2am

In The Catacombs: Anthony Mansfield Elz M3

Chihuly at the de Young

de Young Museum9:30am�5:15pm

New, site-specific installations by glass artist Dale Chihuly. Chihuly at the de Young takes a comprehensive view of the artist�s dramatic,…

Superstition Obstacle Course

Exploratorium10am � 5pm, Close Mondays

For many people, Friday the 13th suggests bad luck -- but is it really tempting fate or taking a risk to break a mirror? Are you Breaking a…

2-D/3-D Show

Luna Rienne Gallery5pm - 7pm

22nd Street Merchants fabric8 and Neon Monster are teaming up to bring you the 2-D/3-D Show, a group art exhibition featuring works on both…

My Strange Nation

Dragon Theatre8:00 pm

theatre Q presents World Premiere Musical Review: My Strange Nation, the Music of Susan Werner theatre Q is please to invite you to the…

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Power & Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty

Asian Art Museum10 am to 5 pm, Until 9 pm on Thurs

Why are Ming vases cherished as exquisite artworks of majestic perfection? Find out at this unique exhibition of more than 200 Ming treasures…

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Beachwood Sparks

Bottom of the HillDoors at 8:30pm, Show at 9pm

Beachwood Sparks have toured with the Shins, J Mascis and the Fog, the Jayhawks, the Black Crows, Red House Painters, have made two full-lengths…

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Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11am-5pm

Photography is an act of concentrated seeing, and by extension an act of knowing. Its origins are intrinsically linked to the idea of the �document,�…

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Chaos A.D.

D.A. Artsn/a

Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, installation and utter chaos. The new occupant of DA Arts space is Bryan Schnelle, presenting a collection of…

Josette Urso

Chandler Fine Art9am - 6pm

In these collage works, there is the desire to push the visual matrix to a crescendo just before breakdown, to find, in T.S. Eliot's phrase,"The…

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Thursdays @Slide

Slide9pm - afterhours

Known for his unique, sexy, sophisticated sound and his upscale fashionable image, Donovan is one of the most popular and sought-after DJs in…

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