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 Special event: Winter Weeks December 20, 2014 – January 4, 2015 every day with exceptions | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Film: Meerkats in 3D September 20, 2014 – February 6, 2015 every day | 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
  Exhibit: Following in Bartrams' Footsteps December 15, 2014 – February 15, 2015 every day with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Exhibit: California, Captured on Canvas October 8, 2014 – March 6, 2015 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Bancroft Library
 Open house: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Tuesday, January 6 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St, Berkeley
 Botanical garden: Plants illustrated exhibition January 7 – February 15, 2015 every day with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
 Botanical garden: The Venus Fly Trap and other carnivorous plants Saturday, January 10 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Register online, or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu. Music: Bach St. John Passion January 10 – 11, 2015 every day | 4:30 p.m. | On campus of Berkeley High School Berkeley Community Theater, 1930 Allston Way, Berkeley
Lecture: Your brain on drugs Monday, January 12 | 4:30-6 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center)
 Botanical garden: Bird walk with Sarah Maclean Thursday, January 15 | 9-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
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Enjoy quality time with your family and keep the learning gears in motion by coming to the Lawrence Hall of Science this holiday season. Our exhibits, hands-on labs, National Geographic 3D Theater, and Planetarium are open for extra holiday hours during Winter Weeks.
Filmed over the course of a year, Meerkats 3D follows an extraordinary—not to mention adorable—family that stands just 12 inches tall. Discover how these tiny but strong creatures survive in the harsh desert, led by the family’s tenacious matriarch, Klinky. Together, this family of 20 will battle a rival gang to protect their territory, their pups, and their very lives. The Lawrence Hall of Science's National Geographic 3D Theater plays Meerkats 3D daily.
This major art exhibition includes forty-four original artworks based on the native plant discoveries made by John and William Bartram in their renowned and influential travels throughout the eastern wilderness between the 1730s and 1790s. The UC Botanical Garden will be the only West Coast showing of the exhibition.
This exhibit portrays California both as a vast landscape of mountains, ocean, and forests and as an intimate home for vastly different inhabitants. Scenes of Yosemite and the Gold Rush are displayed, along with more recent work such as colorful paintings by John Sackas of the Golden Gate Produce Market. Also featured are Augustus John’s vibrant portrait of San Francisco’s tennis champion Helen Wills, and an imposing painting by Charles Grant of the Great White Fleet entering the Golden Gate on May 5th 1908. The exhibit conveys the variety of artistic prisms through which the Golden State has been captured on canvas. 
OLLI @Berkeley is a year-round learning community for adults over 50. Come to the Open House and learn more about the courses, lectures, and social programming and hear directly from the faculty about the courses and workshops they will be teaching. 
View the 6th annual Plants Illustrated exhibition of botanical art featuring work by the Northern California Society of Botanical Artists. This year the pieces will represent plants in the Garden's collection. Free with garden Admission.
John Bartram was the first to introduce the Venus Fly Trap into cultivation. Family members of all age are invited to discover some of the fascinating and beautiful plants that can eat insects. Get up close with the amazing leaf adaptations as you learn more 
Enjoy a free performance of Bach's St. Joh Passion under the direction of Ming Luke. Performance will feature Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Danielle Reutter-Harrah, mezzo soprano; Brian Thorsett, tenor; Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and Paul Thompson, bass.
Get an introduction to the latest scientific findings on addiction’s effect on the brain in an incisive talk by UC Berkeley professor, Mark D’Esposito. Understand how certain circuits in the brain that normally guide goal-directed behavior are malfunctioning in the throes of addiction. Dr. Esposito also explains novel cognitive and pharmacological treatments in clinical settings.
Join us in search of resident, migrant, and vagrant birds in the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden's many bird friendly micro-habitats. Both beginning and experienced bird watchers are welcome! Bring binoculars if you have them. Advance registration required.