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Register Now for Creative Writing Classes at the Berkeley WRITING SALON

The Berkeley Writing SalonAny time, online via our website

The Writing Salon, founded in 1999, is a school of creative writing for adults at all levels of experience, from beginners to advanced. We offer…

415.609.2468

Sandy Walker: Figures & Landscapes

Gary Francis Fine Art11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Oakland painter, printmaker and visual artist, Sandy Walker will be showing more than 35 small paintings and woodcut prints at the Gary Francis…

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COLLEEN MCCRYSTLE PRESENTS �VISIONS OF MAUI� EXHIBIT AT NEWPARK MALL�S CULTURAL CORNER

Newpark Mall - Department Stores3pm-8pm

features her �Visions of Maui� installation. WHAT: McCrystle�s paintings are a multimedia response to the flora, fauna and people of Maui and…

The Buzzed Bee

Firehouse Art Events Hangar6:30pm

On September 11th �Errant SBELLING� Productions presents the return of the T-H-R-I-L-L-T-A-S-T-I-C amalgam of libation and alphabetic competition:…

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Berkeley in the Sixties (Mark Kitchell; US, 1990)

PFA Theater7:00pm

Special Guests: FSM activists Frank Bardacke, Lynne Hollander Savio; Frank Bardacke was a member of the Oakland Seven antiwar protestors and…

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Flower Drum Song

Woodminster Amphitheater7 pm

This new version of Flower Drum Song marries a new script by Tony award-winning Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang with the great Rodgers…

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Home [away from] Home

Lake Merritt12 PM

Home [away from] Home is an experimental art installation featuring artists in the Ethiopian and Eritrean communities of the Bay Area, culminating…

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Aireal Alchemy

Skyhigh Odditorium6:30pm

Aireal Alchemy is a teaching tool that shares essential ingredients for the creative brew of aerial acrobatic art. By usage of categorization,…

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Life Could Be A Dream

Dean Lesher Center For the Arts8:00pm

SH-BOOM! Meet Denny and the Dreamers, a fledgling doo-wop singing group preparing to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest with dreams of making…

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JAMES ELLROY at Books Inc. Alameda

Books Inc. in Alameda7:00 PM

Screenwriter, essayist, memoirist, international bestseller, and dubbed ""one of the great American writers of our time"" by the Los Angeles…

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Story Hour in the Library featuring Jess Row

Morrison Library5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. In September the program features author…

Guest Chef Dinner with Kimball Jones Make a Reservation

Wente Vineyards5:00pm-9:00pm

Experience the culinary evolution of The Restaurant at Wente Vineyards on Thursday, September 11 with a one-night-only four course menu featuring…

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Judy Chicago: A Butterfly for Oakland

Oakland Museum of California11am - 5pm, til 9pm on Fri

As acclaimed artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual Judy Chicago turns 75 this year, the Oakland Museum of California joins prominent…

Camp Be A Fit Mama

Studio GrandMWF 5:30 or 6:35 TTh 6:35

Camp BFM is a fun, yet challenging experience! Our goal is to inspire you to reach your fitness goals no matter where you are in your fitness…

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Passenger

Fox Theater - Oakland8 PM

The last year or so has certainly been a wild and wonderful ride for Passenger, aka Mike Rosenberg: from years dedicated to busking the streets…

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MATRIX 254 / Geta Brătescu

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MATRIX 254 features the work of Romanian artist Geta Brătescu (b. 1926), who has been living and working in Bucharest since the 1950s.…

Looking Intently: The James Cahill Legacy

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The late James Cahill, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was known as a brilliant scholar, exceptional teacher and writer, and extraordinary…

Hofmann by Hofmann

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

In 1960 Hans Hofmann (1880�1966) described the just-completed painting Summer Bliss as one of his finest. At the suggestion of Erle Loran, then…

Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Forrest Bess (1911�1977) described himself as a visionary artist. His small but powerful abstract paintings, with their thick paint and handmade…

Envisioning Human Rights: The Next Generation

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00-5:00

Visual art can be a powerful tool to create awareness and change in the face of both national and international human rights abuses. BAM/PFA…

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