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  Lawrence Hall of Science: Global Groove Gala Friday, May 9 | 6-11 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Conference: World-Making and World Art May 9 – 10, 2008 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Theater Berkeley Art Museum
Opera: Rachel Portman's 'The Little Prince' May 9 – 10, 2008 every day | 7:30 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Concert: University Symphony Orchestra performs Ravel, Strauss and New Music May 9 – 10, 2008 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Tickets go on sale January 5. Buy tickets online, or by calling Cal Performances Box Office at 510-642-9988. Exhibit: 'Borderlandia,' mixed-media work by Enrique Chagoya February 13 – May 18, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Exhibit: Ward Schumaker's hand-painted books and works on paper March 10 – May 30, 2008 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 220 Stephens Hall
Photography: Protest in Paris 1968 — photographs by Serge Hambourg March 12 – June 1, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum
 Botanical Garden: Birding breakfast and rose stroll Saturday, May 10 | Botanical Garden
Make reservations by calling 510-643-2755 x03.  New music: Catch Electric Guitar Quartet Sunday, May 11 | 8 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
 Energy: Capturing solar energy for transportation fuel Monday, May 12 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St, Berkeley
 Climate change: A proposal to rebuild polar ice and habitat Tuesday, May 13 | 10-11 a.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg.
 Global health: Launch of a new campuswide initiative Wednesday, May 14 | 4-7 p.m. | Berdahl Auditorium Stanley Hall
 Staff: Self assessment with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator Thursday, May 15 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Class of '42 Tang Center, University Health Services
Search keyword: Career. Enroll online. Exhibit: 'These Canyons,' 38th UC Berkeley M.F.A. exhibition May 16 – June 8, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Celebration: 'Cal Japan Day,' Center for Japanese Studies 50th anniversary Saturday, May 17 | 1-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Buy tickets by calling Keiko Hjersman at 510-642-3415, or by emailing Keiko Hjersman at cjs@berkeley.edu. Workshop: Medicinal plants of Northern California May 17 – 18, 2008 every day | 3030 Valley Life Sciences Bldg.
Registration opens November 1. Register by May 15 online, or by calling Anna Larsen at 510-643-7008, or by emailing Anna Larsen at alarsen@berkeley.edu. Egyptology: Early Christianity at Kharga Oasis Sunday, May 18 | 2:30 p.m. | 20 Barrows Hall
Theater: Robert Lepage's 'The Andersen Project' May 28 – 31, 2008 every day | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Classical music: 'From The Top' live taping Thursday, May 29 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Staff: Career planning workshop Thursday, May 29 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Class of '42 Tang Center, University Health Services
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With the San Francisco Bay as a backdrop, friends and supporters of UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) will kick off its 40th year with a Global Groove Gala. The celebration draws on the imaginative tradition of LHS with a blend of science, art and fun – including the debut of its newest exhibit "Science on a Sphere." The naturally dramatic setting of LHS will be enhanced with light displays, performance artists, the world music of Zebbler Encanti Experience, and fine wine and cuisine from around the world. Dinner will take place on the spacious LHS plaza.
This conference explores practices of visual and aural culture in painting, photography, film, architecture, performance, music, and new media as world-making—how they create human worlds of sensation, knowledge, and action. The traditions addressed range from 19th-century Europe and 20th-century America to the medieval Islamic world, the transnational Caribbean, and contemporary India. If art makes many different worlds, how do these worlds interrelate? How do they change? A diverse group of scholars will wrestle with the question: What world is involved in "world art"?
Cal Performances and the San Francisco Opera team up to bring you the West Coast premiere of this warm, wondrous opera for the whole family. A beloved classic of children's literature, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fable about a pilot who crash lands in the desert and meets an open-hearted boy from another planet is a gentle reminder to hold on to what is truly important in life. It has been set to music by Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman, whose score has been praised by critics as "graceful and tuneful" and "colorful and charming." Francesca Zambello's production, with witty sets and costumes by Maria Bjørnson, adds richness and depth to the book's charming illustrations. Sung in English with English supertitles.
The UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor David Milnes, performs concerts throughout the academic year. This program will feature: Ravel's "Tzigane" (soloist Jessica Ling), Richard Strauss's, "Alpine Symphony," Johann Strauss's "The Blue Danube Waltz," and Jean Ahn's "Salt" (2007).
Superman faces off with an Aztec god and cannibals run amok in Monet’s garden at Giverny in Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, the first major museum retrospective of the work of Mexico-born, San Francisco–based artist Enrique Chagoya. In the more than seventy works in the exhibition—paintings, charcoal and pastel drawings, prints, and mixed-media codices (accordion-folded books)—Chagoya intermingles icons and cultural references spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles to create fantastic images and scathingly funny satires.
Can sacred texts wield Biblical authority or even exist in this age when words come easily and with little cost or effort? “Saved!,” an exhibit of artist and illustrator Ward Schumacher’s word paintings and hand-painted books on view through at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, explores that question. Schumacher’s canvases are thick with paint and swirling text, and incorporate a range of texts — from Augustine to Rumplestiltskin, Leibniz to Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. Schumacher’s work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Poetry, and Le Figaro; He has illustrated two limited edition for The Yolla Bolly Press: Two Kitchens in Provence by M.F.K.Fisher, and Paris France by Gertrude Stein. 
In May 1968 in Paris, student and worker strikes against the conservative government of General Charles de Gaulle brought the country to a standstill. Images by French photographer Serge Hambourg provide a striking eyewitness account of this pivotal moment in political and cultural history."
In the morning (8-11 a.m.), join Chirs Carmichael, associate director of collections and horticulture, and expert birder Dennis Wolff to walk and talk amongst the birds and birders at this annual event. Registration is required as space is limited at this free event. A light breakfast will be included. Note: heavy rains will cancel this walk.
A near 20-year crisscrossing of paths and collaborations, e.g. within the context of rock bands and free improvisation groups as well in contemporary ensembles, provides the backdrop for the members of the Amsterdam-based CATCH quartet (Wiek Hijmans, Seth Josel, Patricio Wang, and Mark Haanstra). In 2003 the world premiere of Steve Mackey’s Dreamhouse - a Holland Festival commission - finally provided the opportunity to bring together the talents of all four musicians on one stage. Since then, the quartet has been involved in further premiere performances (Peter Adriaansz, Huib Emmer, Christopher Fox,), ensemble collaborations (Cappela Amsterdam), and has become the ensemble in residence at the OUTPUT festival in Amsterdam. In this appearence, the quartet will play Alan Tormey's "Cowboy Song (Hope Dies Last)" (2006) for guitar quartet and tape and Peter Adriaansz's "Serenades II-IV (No 23)" (2004). 
Capturing solar energy and storing it as an affordable transportation fuel will require developing new materials that can use abundant and inexpensive elements rather than costly and rare materials. Nate Lewis will discuss how to overcome this challenge and how to do it on the scale necessary to reduce global warming. 
Climate change has raised the Earth’s global average temperature, which may lead to a shift of weather patterns, an increase in sea level, and the melting of glacial ice. A reduction in the percentage of the Earth’s surface covered by polar ice caps creates a feedback effect whereby the more the ice melts, the faster the remaining ice melts. Leslie Field, founder and managing member of SmallTech Consulting and professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, will discuss a proposal aimed at providing an interim solution to help stabilize polar and glacial ecosystems while longer term approaches to global warming are developed and implemented. The proposed system includes the placement of specifically designed materials to adjust the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the underlying ocean or ice and is intended to reduce the melting rate of polar and glacial ice within the Arctic, Antarctic and glacial regions at a relatively low cost
The Berkeley Alliance for Global Health is a new research initiative focused on improving health outcomes in the developing world and around the globe. It is comprised of two tightly linked centers: the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases, and the Center for Global Public Health. With more than 80 researchers in biology, bioengineering, public health, economics and law, the Alliance is bringing innovative, unorthodox solutions to critical health challenges--including HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, and the spread of drug resistant tuberculosis. 
Understanding your preferred work style and how it relates to specific careers and work roles on campus can be critical to career satisfaction. This workshop uses the Myers Briggs Type Indicator to identify personality and work style preferences. The MBTI personal inventory is a questionnaire designed to make personality types as described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people’s lives. 
The 38th Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts graduate exhibition gathers seven artists (Adrianne Crane, Renée Delores, Rosalynn Khor, Indira Martina Morre, Emily Prince, Wenhua Shi, and Sunaura Taylor) who, despite working with disparate styles and subject matter, root their practice in a common acknowledgment of the contemporary moment. From the intimate confrontation with the tactility of clay to the depictions of animals devastated by the farming industry to the travel stories of strangers captured in a form of psychogeographic digital story telling, each artist rethinks critical concepts from personal vantage points.
The Center for Japanese Studies is one of the oldest Japanese Studies centers in the United States, with internationally recognized strengths in Japanese history, literature, political science, religion, anthropology, and art history. This 50th anniversary celebration will include a tour of the newly-opened C.V. Starr East Asian Library followed by a 
California is a treasure-trove of medicinal plant species. Many famous medicinal species from cultures around the world grow wild in California, and others are commonly cultivated as ornamentals. This experiential class, taught by botanist Christopher Hobbs, will provide an introduction to the biology, chemistry, and conservation of some important medicinal species found in Northern California. Historical and modern clinical uses of many locally available species will be emphasized. There will be demonstrations of traditional methods of herb harvest, drying, processing, and extraction. A highlight of the class will be a half-day plant walk at the UC Botanical Garden on Sunday to meet many medicinal species in person. 
Eugene Cruz-Uribe, professor emeritus of history at Northern Arizona University, will explore the long and complex transition from the traditional religious beliefs of ancient Egypt to the new Christian practices in his lecture “Christians Lost in the Desert?” Based on archaeological field research conducted mainly at the sites of Bagawat and Gebel Teir in Kharga Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert, the presentation will examine the process of the conversion of Egyptians to Christianity using these communities as a guide and model. Cruz-Uribe will also discuss how Egyptians adapted traditional practices to Christianity, as well as how the two groups went from being friendly neighbors to serious competitors.
Canadian directory and writer, Robert Lepage returns to Cal Performances to present his latest one-man production, "The Andersen Project," based on the life of Hans Christian Andersen, featuring Yves Jacques. This spellbinding solo piece draws on some of Lepage's favorite themes: the confrontation of past and present, of Romanticism and modernism, and of recognized and underground art forms. In this fascinating piece, Lepage also explores more personal territories in questions about sexual identity, unfulfilled fantasies, and the thirst for recognition and fame that are drawn from Andersen's life and writings. Content appropriate for mature audiences only. 
This popular radio show, a talent competition for superb young classical musicians, is aired on 250 stations nationwide including San Francisco's KDFC, and is hailed by critics as "the best thing to happen to classical music since Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts." Hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley, this live weekly taping of "From the Top" is a fun musical event for the entire family. "You don't have to be a classical music fan to love this show. From the Top's signature is not taking itself too seriously—it's classy reality programming," says NBC's The Today Show.
Building a career on campus involves developing a plan that connects one's personal interests and abilities with career opportunities currently available on campus and with future campus workforce needs. Jarralynne Agee, program manager at the Center for Workforce Development, and Elayne Chou, career counselor at the Tang Center, will help you set goals and plan decision making strategies in this career planning workshop. You will also learn ways to handle potential obstacles to career development at Berkeley.