Around Berkeley
🐻 Go on a kid-friendly bear scavenger hunt on the UC Berkeley campus with the Berkeley Path Wanderers Association. Young bear spotters should be accompanied by an grownup. Sunday, Oct. 15, 10 a.m., Sproul Hall. FREE, however RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 12.
💻 The Berkeley Center for New Media and the Arts Research Center current an in-person journey through the physical internet infrastructure within the type of a bus-and-walking tour billed as “Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations.” Thursday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Hearst Museum. $15
🇧🇷 As the “plus one” in Brazilian guitarists’ Rogério Souza and his son Tiago Souza’s Duo Violão Plus One, Oakland percussion maestra Ami Molinelli hyperlinks the 2 ensembles on this double dose of Brazilian magnificence, as she additionally holds down the percussion chair within the Bay Area’s choro-powered Grupo Falsa Baiano, a quartet that additionally options Zack Pitt-Smith on reeds, Brian Moran on seven-string guitar, and Jesse Appelman on mandolin. Thursday, Oct. 12, 8 p.m. Freight & Salvage. $22
🎶 East Bay blues harp stalwart Mark Hummel, winner of two coveted Blues Music Awards, brings his Chicago Blues Revue to the Back Room, that includes Cash Box Kings vocalist Oscar Wilson; guitarist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Billy Flynn; and singer/guitarist Joe Beard, an 83-year-old blues patriarch not often heard on the West Coast. Friday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. $25
🎷 Israeli reed star Anat Cohen is the latest jazz luminary to play the California Jazz Conservatory as a part of the JAMBAR collection, pairing her clarinet and tenor sax with an all-star combo that includes bass grasp and CJC Dean Jeff Denson, drum knowledgeable Mark Ferber and the supremely versatile pianist Frank Martin, who’s credit run the gamut from Sting, Stevie Wonder and Patti Austin to Randy Brecker, Shankar Mahadevan and Flora Purim and Airto. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 13-14, 8 p.m. $35
🎤 With a bevy of celebrated artists, together with San Francisco poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, rapper Honest, and Puerto Rican vocalist and healer María José Montijo (chief of the bomba-powered Esotérica Tropical), La Peña Cultural Center presents the Empowering People of Color Open Mic. Friday, Oct. 13, 8-10:30 p.m. $5-$25
💗 Start stringing your friendship bracelets now, as a result of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour can be displaying at Berkeley’s solely remaining industrial movie show, Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, starting Friday, Oct. 13. Through Nov. 5. $19.89
☀️ Head as much as the Lawrence Hall of Science for great views of the solar eclipse, plus a dialogue of how they happen. Eclipse glasses can be available for buy main as much as and in the course of the eclipse. Saturday, Oct. 14, 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Included with admission.
💧The 28th annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival will carry collectively poets, writers, musicians and environmentalists for a day celebrating nature. Featured poets embrace Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Pulitzer finalist Brenda Hillman, and Northern California Book Award-winner Danusha Laméris. Saturday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Various areas, however fundamental occasions can be held at MLK Jr. Civic Center Park. FREE
🧑🦽The BORP Adaptive Sports Expo, supposed for folks with disabilities and their household and buddies, consists of intro periods for staff sports activities, biking and kayaking, mountaineering, ping pong, pickleball, and extra. Saturday, Oct. 14. See web site for particulars. FREE
🎶 Presented by Freight & Salvage, the all-day Freight Fest is Berkeley’s model of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, shrunk down to suit on a single block, with meals vehicles, household actions, a beer tent and two outside phases on Addison that includes Orchestra Gold’s Malian funk, the uplifting hip hop of Alphabet Rockers, the brass-driven Anthony Paul Soul Orchestra, and hyper-creative rapper and vocalist Lyrics Born. Presented by Little Village Foundation, the principle stage contained in the venue includes a spectacular array of roots musicians who’ve recorded for the distinctive label, together with the Filipina trio Sampaguitas (2 p.m.), gutbucket bluesmen Alabama Mike and Kid Andersen (2:30 p.m.), household folkie Nic Clark (3 p.m.), country-inflected singer/songwriter Maurice Tani (3:30 p.m.), Bollywood blues harp participant Aki Kumar (4 p.m.), powerhouse Latina blues belter Marina Crouse (4:30 p.m.), and the roof-raising gospel of Sons of The Soul Revivers (5 p.m.). Saturday Oct. 14, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Addison Street between Milvia Street and Shattuck Avenue. FREE
🏳️🌈 Kala Gallery is internet hosting The Embodied Press: queer abstraction and the artists’ book. Curated by SF-based artist and author Anthea Black, the books highlighted within the exhibit purpose to “show that sexual, gender and racial difference cannot be easily understood or legitimized through public visibility alone.” An event on Saturday, Oct. 14, 3 p.m., features a efficiency of musician Megan Adie’s HUSH, adopted by an artist panel. Exhibit open via Feb. 9, 2024. FREE
🔥 The Metal Arts Guild San Francisco, ACCI Gallery, and Enamel Guild have solid The Flame Within, their biennial collaborative exhibition showcasing steel sculptures, art work, handmade jewellery and extra. Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 14, 4 p.m.-6 p.m., ACCI Gallery. Exhibit open via Nov. 12. FREE
🎶 A blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with a deep affinity for West African music, Markus James brings his Juju Blues collaboration with Senegalese talking drum expert Massamba Dip to Ashkenaz for a dance live performance. Saturday, Oct. 14, 8:30 p.m. $18-$22
🧺 Take a pine needle basketry workshop on the UC Botanical Garden uphill from the UC Berkeley campus. Basket maker, weaver and Waldorf handwork trainer Judith Thomas will present you the right way to collect, put together, and protect needles and weave them, utilizing a method generally known as “coiling,” right into a mini basket. All supplies are supplied. Sunday, Oct. 15, 10 a.m. $100
📚 Artist Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán will give a discuss his new e book, Brown Eyes from Russell Street on the UC Berkeley Latinx Research Center. Conchas, drinks, and posters can be supplied. Read our profile in regards to the third-gen South Berkeley resident. Saturday, Oct. 14, 5 p.m. FREE
🐦 The third annual Berkeley Bird Festival options loads of avian-themed arts and crafts, birding walks on the UC Berkeley campus, and excursions of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (the museum seldom exhibits off its collections of fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and – after all – birds). Sunday, Oct. 15. Visit the festival’s website for particulars. FREE
🪗 Accordionist Hanzhi Wang and mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital will play a joint recital at UC Berkeley’s intimate Hertz Hall. The program consists of Béla Bartók’s fashionable Romanian Folk Dances and Camille Saint-Saëns’ showy Introduction and Rondo Capricciosco. Sunday, Oct. 15, 3 p.m. $67-$72
🎶 The Berkeley Symphony will open its 2023-2024 season with a program celebrating the evolution of American music. The orchestra can be joined by the Marcus Roberts Trio for jazz composer James P. Johnson’s Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody. Also on this system are Samuel Barber’s vibrant and intense Second Essay for Orchestra, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (which you would possibly know from United Airlines’ well-known onboard commercial), and Korean American up to date composer Peter S. Shin’s Relapse. Sunday, Oct. 15, 4 p.m. $25-$80
🍽️ Rialto Cinemas Elmwood is displaying The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F. K. Fisher, a function documentary in regards to the dramatic lifetime of the intrepid Californian meals author with commentary from movie star cooks Alice Waters and Jecques Pepin, in addition to garlic king L. John Harris (who will make an look on the 6:30 p.m. screening). Screenings can be adopted by a dialog between director Greg Bezat and particular visitors. Wednesday, Oct. 18, 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. $15
🌊 Los Angeles Times coastal reporter Rosanna Xia will focus on her new e book, California Against the Sea: Visions For Our Vanishing Coastline with New York Magazine author Elizabeth Weil. Wednesday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m. Pegasus Books Downtown. FREE
👻 Celebrate spooky season by taking a haunted history tour at Berkeley’s fancy Claremont Hotel, which can take you thru areas which are usually closed to the general public, in addition to “the most haunted room in the hotel.” Tours are beneficial for ages 12 and above and run via Oct. 31. Visit the tour’s web site for particulars. $40
🎃 Pumpkin gross sales from Westbrae Nursery’s East Bay Pumpkin Patch at 1272 Gilman St. will profit Cornell Elementary School. Pumpkin costs vary from $2.50 to $27, and so they don’t cost an entry charge. You’ll algo have the ability to take an image with Oogie Boogie, the villainous bag of bugs from Nightmare Before Christmas (don’t fear, it’s simply an inflatable) and an enormous pumpkin from Larry’s Produce in Fairfield. Open each day via Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
🇺🇲 Berkeley Rep’s POTUS is a comedic, feminist satire about an incompetent president and the staff of ladies chargeable for holding him out of hassle. Read our assessment. Through October 22. $34-$134
Beyond Berkeley
🎞️ The Drunken Film Festival helps Bay Area filmmakers showcase their shorts whereas selling Oakland bars. This 12 months, 9 shorts spanning documentaries, music movies, animations, avant-garde movies, and extra can be screening at Telegraph Beer Garden, Temescal Brewing, Eli’s Mile High Club, and The Continental Club. The fest kicked off with screenings at The Double Standard and Stay Gold Deli this previous Sunday and Monday, respectively, and can shut out at The Continental Club on Saturday, Oct. 14. Check out the competition’s website and social media for a breakdown of every day’s location and lineup. Tuesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m. Telegraph Beer Garden. 2318 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. Check out the competition’s website for the entire schedule of movies and areas. FREE
🇮🇹 Rockridge Market Hall will rejoice Italian delicacies with e book signings by two well-known San Francisco-based Italian cooks, Viola Buitoni, creator of Italy by Ingredient, and A16 restaurant proprietor and wine director Shelley Lindgren, creator of Italian Wine. The signings can be adopted by a Crucolo parade, a convention paying homage to the well-known cheese that comes from the Trentino area in Northern Italy. Attendees will have the ability to pattern this semi-soft cow’s milk cheese, together with different tasty Italian treats. Many of the businesses contained in the corridor will even offer Italian meals all through the day. Saturday, Oct. 14, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. 5655 College Ave., Oakland.
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The Oaklandside’s Arts and Community reporter Azucena Rasilla contributed reporting to this story.
