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All events occurring November 7, 2009
189 events found -- 1 through 20
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
Aikido Classes
Developed during the 1930s, aikido is a martial art based on redirecting attacks by defending oneself while protecting attackers from harm. Ongoing low-cost aikido classes are held year-round in the Fireside Room of the Live Oak Park Recreation Center (1301 Shattuck Ave.,
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$40/mo for 2 classes per week; $28/mo for one class per week. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. and Mondays, 6 p.m. Continues through Dec. 31
Live Oak Center, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, 510-981-6690.
American Idiot
Inspired by the Green Day album of the same name, Berkeley Rep's new rock opera American Idiotpromised the theater event of the year -- and it delivered. The script expands on the rough story in the album, in which a self-anointed "Jesus
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Sept. 4-Nov. 15
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley, 510-647-2949, BerkeleyRep.org.
AXIS Dance Company
Just as everybody can enjoy watching dance, every body can enjoy dancing. And bodies of all types, with and without disabilities, move together in AXIS Dance Company's innovative productions. Along with worldwide acclaim, seven Isadora Duncan Awards, and an enviable list of
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$10-$22. Nov. 6-7, 8 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 8, 2 p.m.
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice St., Oakland, 510-238-7219, MalongaCenter.org.
The Abu Ghraib Series
The waterboarding of Iraqi detainees by US troops was mocked by many Fox-bitten supporters of our misadventure in Iraq, but the Abu Ghraib photographs that surfaced in 2004 were indefensible and disgraceful: naked captives, attack dogs, electrical wires, sexual taunting. (Close your
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Oct. 16-Feb. 7
Berkeley Art Museum, 2625 Durant Ave., Berkeley, 510-642-0808, BAMPFA.berkeley.edu.
Thérèse Lahaie: Longing for the Background
Motors and lights may power her kinetic sculptures, but whizbang technology is the least of ThérèseLahaie's concerns. Rather, she uses her slowly rotating abraded mirrors as meditational objects linking the waxing and waning of natural processes with human respiration and pulse. Transparent
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Oct. 2-Nov. 21
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, 25 Grand Ave., Oakland, 415-577-7537, ChandraCerrito.com.
Children's Fairyland Weekend Activities
Randall Metz first came to Children's Fairyland when he was ten, to watch a puppet theater production of Treasure Island. By the end of the play, he knew what he wanted to do with his life. Later that year, he entered a
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$6. Saturdays, 11 a.m. and Sundays, 11 a.m.
Children's Fairyland, 699 Bellevue Ave. (at Lake Merritt), Oakland, 510-452-2259, Fairyland.org.
Dream-Interpretation Workshop
You were climbing Mount Everest with Jet Li and Jesse Jackson when a cloud of fluorescent butterflies descended upon you, exuding an odor of French fries and myrrh. Jesse recited the Lord's Prayer in Esperanto as Jet sprouted rabbit ears. Then you
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free. First Saturday of every month, 2 p.m.
Castro Valley Library, 20055 Redwood Rd., Castro Valley, 510-670-6280.
Eat Local Workshop
It's simple: The less distance your edibles travel before reaching you, the fresher they are. At the Ecology Center (2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley) on Saturday, Nov. 7, an Eat Local workshop led by naturalist Terri Compost includes an acorn-preparation demo, a
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$15. Sat., Nov. 7, 11 a.m.
Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, 510-548-2220, EcologyCenter.org.
Family Storytime
Will it be The Night Before Christmas? Or The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?Or just a classic tale about sledding, skating, starry nights, and runaway snowmen? Come in from out of the cold and snuggle into the season with well-loved words, music, games,
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free. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.
Oakland Public Library, Lakeview Branch, 550 El Embarcadero, Oakland, 510-238-7344, OaklandLibrary.org.
First Saturdays at the California Genealogical Society and Library
Was your great-great-granddad a gold miner -- or a grifter? Did your distaff side set sail from Denmark -- or Dubai? One day every month, the California Genealogical Society and Library ( 2201 Broadway, Suite LL2, Oakland) opens its doors free to
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free. First Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
California Genealogical Society and Library, Latham Square Bldg., Oakland, 510-663-1358.
Fruit Carving
Practiced since the Tang Dynasty -- that is, before the tenth century -- the carving of fruits and vegetables into artful shapes is a distinctive Chinese culinary tradition. At the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (388 9th St., Suite 290, Oakland) produce-carver Jimmy
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$50. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Continues through Dec. 31
Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St., Oakland, 510-637-0455, OACC.cc.
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Metaphors for love, death, entrapment, and "otherness" all collide in The Future Project: Sunday Will Come, a new collaboration Campo Santo and the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project. It's a thoroughly beautiful and purposefully disorienting play, ostensibly about two people trying to
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$15-$25. Nov. 5-7, 8 p.m.
Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia St., San Francisco, 415-626-3311.
Human Resources
The sculptures of Danielle Giudici Wallis imbue non-art materials with Magrittean logic and humor. In "Human Resources," flag-topped dirt/rubble mounds and oaken buckets filled variously with dirt, stones, bricks, and lead surround a central steel-banded brick smokestack perched atop a large, single
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Nov. 3-13
Oakland Museum of California at City Center Sculpture Court, 1111 Broadway, Oakland, 510-238-2200, MuseumCA.org.
Stones in His Pockets
Few plays require as much stamina as Stones in His Pockets, a drama about two working-class blokes who are hired as extras when their town of County Kerry, Ireland, gets overrun by a Hollywood film crew. It's a two-hander, meaning that two
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Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m. Continues through Nov. 8
Black Box Theatre, 531 19th St., Oakland.
Wild About Books
Duck out of last-minute retail hell and take a load off your feet on the fourth floor of the Berkeley Library's Central branch (2090 Kittredge St.), where every Saturday morning it's time for Wild About Books. Children's librarians Josh, Claudia, and Elizabeth
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free. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.
Berkeley Public Library, Central Branch, 2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley, 510-981-6100, BerkeleyPublicLibrary.org.
EVENT LISTINGS
The Robot Taxonomy Project
Exhibit curated by the Robot Idenfication Institute (under the direction of Eliot K. Daughtry), features new bas-relief art works based on different classes from the Robot Taxonomy. The RII will take reports, provide alerts about unusual robot activity, and expand the Robot
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Opening reception: Fri., Nov. 6, 7-10 p.m. Nov. 6-Dec. 6
21 Grand Gallery/Performance Space, 416 25th St., Oakland, 510-444-7263, 21Grand.org.
$25 No Limit Hold 'Em
free. Mondays-Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. and Sundays, 11 a.m.
Lucky Buck Card Club, 1620 Railroad Ave., Livermore, 925-455-6144.
Everything I was I Became in Memory
Art exploring memory by Kevin Parks Hauser and Carrie Hott.
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Free. Nov. 6-29, 7-10 p.m.
Royal NoneSuch Gallery, 4321 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, (415)-734-0307, royalnonesuchgallery.com.
Jazz Art
Lavirille Aber, Valeriy Kagoukin, Marni Mutrux, Russell Kidd, Ronald Blodgett, and Marcel Hinesand present paintings of John Coltrane, Billie Holliday, Quincy Jones, Dave Brubeck, and other jazz musicians.Dray Wilmore,.
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Receptions Sat.-Sun., Oct. 24-25; Nov. 21-22; Dec. 19-20 with refreshments and live jazz. Oct. 15-Dec. 20
57th Street Gallery, 5701 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, 510-654-6974, 57thStreetGallery.com.
Challenge of Champions
Community art exhibit commenting on Oakland Homicides.
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Jan. 10-Dec. 28
ABCO Warehouse Space, 3135 Filbert St., Emeryville, ABCOArtSpace.com.
189 events found -- 1 through 20
» Next Day: Sun. November 8, 2009