Performing arts
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Noon Concert: Gamelan
Performing Arts - Music | May 2 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Fall welcome misc.
Javanese and Balinese Gamelan music and dance - student ensembles led by Midiyanto, Dewa Putu Berata, and Lisa Gold
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by... More >
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Lunch Poems: Student Reading
Reading - Literary | May 3 | 12:10-12:50 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Student Reading
A poetry reading by student prize winners.
Friday, May 4, 2018
Bruce Boone and Robert Glück
Reading - Literary | May 4 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Writers Boone and Glück read their work.
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Performing Arts - Music | May 4 | 8-10 p.m. | First Congregational Church
Program:
Nielsen/Chaconne, Op. 32
Sibelius/Selected works
Beethoven/Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 131, No. 2, The Tempest
Schubert/Two Scherzos, D. 593
Jörg Widmann/Idyll and Abyss: Six Schubert Reminiscences
Schubert/Three Piano Pieces, D. 946
$68-$96 prices subject to change
Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Ex Machina; 887: Written, designed, directed, and performed by Robert Lepage
Performing Arts - Theater | May 4 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Canadian director, actor, and playwright Robert Lepage focuses his latest work down to the most intimate scale—a one-man show steeped in his own childhood memories, and supported by Lepage’s production company, Ex Machina. The production employs everything from archival film footage to shadow puppetry to dollhouse-like miniatures of entire city blocks.
This performance is part of Cal... More >
$48-98 prices subject to change
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
University Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | May 4 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of the campus community with the... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Ex Machina; 887: Written, designed, directed, and performed by Robert Lepage
Performing Arts - Theater | May 5 | 3-5 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Canadian director, actor, and playwright Robert Lepage focuses his latest work down to the most intimate scale—a one-man show steeped in his own childhood memories, and supported by Lepage’s production company, Ex Machina. The production employs everything from archival film footage to shadow puppetry to dollhouse-like miniatures of entire city blocks.
This performance is part of Cal... More >
$48-98 prices subject to change
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
University Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | May 5 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of the campus community with the... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Volti Vocal Ensemble
Performing Arts - Music | May 6 | 4 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Volti presents a program of contemporary American music by composers Dany Clay, Robin Estrada, and Zibuokle Martinaitye.
eco ensemble; Foxtrot Delirium: Live silent film score with screening of The Oyster Princess (1919)
Performing Arts - Other | May 6 | 5-7 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
UC Berkeley’s eco ensemble brings the cinematic vision of Ernst Lubitsch to life with the US premiere of Argentine composer Martin Matalon’s film score for the director’s The Oyster
Princess. Lubitsch’s 1919 silent comedy of mistaken identities is a satire aimed at the desires and transgressions of the bourgeoisie. Cal Performances executive and artistic director Matías Tarnopolsky begins the... More >
$20 prices subject to change
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Cal Performances presents Eco Ensemble Foxtrot Delirium: Music by Martin Matalon feat. The Oyster Princess by Ernst Lubitsch
Performing Arts - Music | May 6 | 5 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Music, Cal Performances
UC Berkeley's adventurous eco ensemble brings the cinematic vision of Ernst Lubitsch to life with the US premiere of Argentine composer Martin Matalon's film score for the director's The Oyster Princess. Lubitsch's 1919 silent comedy of mistaken identities is a saucy satire aimed at the desires and transgressions of the bourgeoisie. Matalon has previously scored silent films by Fritz Lang and... More >
$20
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988
TAO; Drum Heart
Performing Arts - Music | May 6 | 7-9 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Japanese taiko troupe TAO brings the centuries-old art form into the present moment with drumming, choreography, and storytelling. For Drum Heart, TAO has collaborated with award-winning Broadway director Amon Miyamoto (Pacific Overtures) to weave the movement of the drummers into a fantastical storyline about the redemptive power of music. TAO’s athletic musicians are joined onstage by... More >
$32-$74 prices subject to change
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
An Evening with David Sedaris
Performing Arts - Other | May 8 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
David Sedaris returns to Berkeley with his signature sardonic wit and incisive social criticism. A master of satire and one of America’s preeminent humorists, Sedaris contributes regularly to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4 and his latest book, Theft By Finding, was recently released to widespread critical acclaim. The evening concludes with an audience Q&A and book signing.
$36-$88 prices subject to change
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Berkeley New Music Project
Performing Arts - Music | May 9 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
David Milnes, director
New works by graduate composers Andrew Harlan, Kayla Cashetta, Selim Göncü, and Ursula Kwong-Brown
FREE
The Berkeley New Music Project is a group dedicated to the performance of new music by the graduate student composers in UC Berkeley’s Department of Music. Supported by funding from the Department of Music, Townsend Center and the Graduate Assembly, BNMP presents at... More >
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Roundtable Reading: A Mystery Bigger than Big / Un misterio más grande que grandísimo by René Saldaña
Reading - Literary | May 12 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Our first bilingual Roundtable Reading, in Spanish and English! Start reading about a young detective’s latest case, and pick up a copy of the book to continue reading at home.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Cal Day at the Mountain Play
Performing Arts - Theater | May 20 | 2 p.m. | Mountain Play Association
Easy Grade Trail, Mill Valley, CA 94941
The Mountain Play
Special reserved area for Cal Bears plus enjoy a welcoming glass of adult beverage from the Marin Bears.
BYOB, picnic, layers of clothes if the fog is in and sunscreen and hat if it’s sunny.
Read up on your options for transportation, food, beverages, hikes and more at
https://www.mountainplay.org/plan-your-visit/
Questions? Email nancyl@calalum.org
Friday, May 25, 2018
Alam and Manik Khan with Nilan Chaudhuri
Performing Arts - Music | May 25 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Alam and Manik Khan play sarode duets with tabla drummer Nilan Chaudhuri.
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Sarah Cahill Concert
Performing Arts - Music | May 27 | 1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Pianist Sarah Cahill performs a solo concert including works by composers Lou Harrison and Ruth Crawford.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Full: Cities
Performing Arts - Music | May 29 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Symphony musicians and friends perform six small-ensemble pieces written by living composers from San Francisco, Hamburg, and Shanghai.
