The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Cal Band Alumni Association (CBAA): Alumni Band Performance- Sausalito July 4th Parade

Performing Arts - Music | July 4 | 8:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. |  Smitty's Bar

Location: 214 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, CA 94965

Sponsor: Cal Band Alumni Association (CBAA)

The Alumni Band in conjunction with members of the Cal Band will once again wow the crowd at the 4th of July parade in Sausalito. Please join us for a great, fun-filled day, with the parade, our annual visit to Smitty’s Bar, a short concert in the park, and free food and drink courtesy of the locals.

SOME DETAILS FOR YOUR PLANNING:
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The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Concerts in the Redwood Grove: Boy in the Bubble + The Blank Tapes

Performing Arts - Music | July 5 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove

Featured Performers: Boy in the Bubble; The Blank Tapes

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Indie, Folk, Glam Rock

BOY IN THE BUBBLE: “Boy in the Bubble play an arresting game of musical hopscotch…Alternating between soft and sighing, loud and sloppy, [singer Josh Seidenfeld] knows exactly where he's going—and he's intent on taking us with him. Call Songs From the City on the Sun indie-rock at a burlesque show. Call it David Bowie on the verge of a meltdown. Call it what you like,...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:$10/$8 for members/ Youth $5/ Under 5 free

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Melanie O'Reilly/ Celtic Jazz with Frank Martin: Sunset Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music | July 11 | 7-8 p.m. |  International House

Featured Performer: Melanie O'Reilly

Performer: Frank Martin

Sponsor: International House

Join us for a unique event with Irish celtic-jazz singer Melanie O'Reilly and top Bay Area jazz pianist Frank Martin as they perform original music inspired by the literature , poetry & culture of Ireland, including their new suite entitled "Joyce & Jazz", inspired by Joyce's "Ulysses" and other Joycean works.

"A gorgeous sound..Celtic Cadence with a jazz sensibility" (Berkeleyside).

This...   More >

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Concerts in the Redwood Grove: Baguette Quartette + Gaucho

Performing Arts - Music | July 12 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove | Tickets sold out

Featured Performers: Baguette Quartette; Gaucho

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Pre-Bastille Day French Show

BAGUETTE QUARTETTE: The Baguette Quartette is a San Francisco Bay Area group that plays music that was heard in Paris between 1920 and 1940 on street corners, in cafes, and in popular dance halls. Led by accordionist Odile Lavault, its repertoire consists of valses musettes, tangos, pasos dobles, fox trots, marches and realistic songs

GAUCHO: Gaucho, a gypsy...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required

Ticket info: Sold out. Sold Out Tickets go on sale May 21. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Ed Harris - Funky Soul Music: International House Sunset Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music | July 17 | 8:15 p.m. |  International House

Sponsor: International House

Enjoy a performance by Ed Harris who will present a funky musical performance with global influences developed from many years of being interested in funk and soul music- made to make you dance!

Admission is FREE for I-House residents, members and alumni, $5 for students with ID and $10 for the general public.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Concerts in the Redwood Grove: Kid Show - Chuckybaby and the Biscuits

Performing Arts - Music | July 19 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Kid show, family sing-along

CHUCKYBABY & THE BISCUITS: Chuckybaby and the Biscuits is a band of local nursery school teachers. Previously playing as Aaron Calvert & Friends, this is the third year in a row they have performed at the Redwood Grove. The band performs beloved and irreverent children’s songs. Bring the family, a picnic, and be ready for fun, giggles and great music!

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:SOLD OUT!!

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Oklahoma! Rodger's and Hammerstein's Broadway Classic: SF Arts Education - UC Berkeley Summer Symphony

Performing Arts - Music | July 20 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall

Sponsors: Department of Music, SF Arts Education Project

Young performing artists from San Francisco Arts Education build on their skills as singers, dancers and actors with the UC Berkeley Summer Symphony, conducted by Henry Shin, in a staged concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway classic, Oklahoma!

DANNY DUNCAN, director
HENRY SHIN, musical director
NATALIE GREENE and ERIN HEWETT, choreographers

Tickets not required:$10 suggested donation

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

International House Sunset Concert Series: Kevin Russell

Performing Arts - Music | July 24 | 7 p.m. | International House, Home Room

Sponsor: International House

Admission is FREE for I-House residents, members and alumni, $5 for students with ID and $10 for the general public.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Jean Gary Pierre - Africombo: International House Sunset Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music | July 31 | 8:15 p.m. |  International House

Sponsor: International House

Enjoy a performance of Afro-beat / Latin / Reggae by Jean Gary Pierre and Africombo. The performance will include vocals and instrumentals with drums, congas, guitar and horns. 90% of the genres performed including Haitian Reggae, Soca, zook, West African, Latin, and Funk are original compositions by “Mr. G”, Jean Gary Pierrre, the band leader.

Admission is FREE for I-House residents, members...   More >