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The Berkeley Arts Festival Calendar is dedicated to the notion that in Berkeley every day is an arts festival. With the first month-long Arts Festival in 1997, we initiated this web site and realized that it could fill a need for information about the activities of all the Berkeley arts organizations year-round. So we expanded it and kept it going, as a guide for the arts-loving people of Berkeley and in appreciation of the City's continued support.
8 pm
Bruce Ackley - soprano saxophone
Thollem McDonas - piano
Karen Stackpole - gongs and percussion
Ackley is a founding member of Rova; Thollem is our vagabonding hero keyboardist; and Karen "Gongwoman" Stackpole is local maestro of the vibration. Although this is the first opportunity for this trio to perform publicly, they have each played together in different settings. It is their mutual affinities that have drawn them together for the Berkeley Arts performance, which is sure to delight and surprise listeners.
9 pm
Michael Vlatkovich Quintet
Michael Vlatkovich - trombone
Tom McNalley - guitar
Scott Walton - bass
John Hanes - drums
Steve Adams - saxophones
This is insane music for a crazy world, composed by Michael Vlatkovich, who continues to attempt to give the population an unfiltered, unedited view of themselves. This music is something they will be able to take home with them. Insanity runs deep, like a river, like music itself.
8pm to 9pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
Composer Aaron Blumenfeld works in three fields of music: classical, jazz and Jewish music. He has composed a jazz piano concerto (funded by a grant from the New Jersey Council on the Arts), two operas, several albums of original jazz and blues, and numerous classical works. In 2010 and 2012 he received awards from Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. Today's concert will consist of two sections: classical songs set to the poems of Berkeley poet Judith Goldhaber (performed by soprano Eliza O'Malley and pianist Willis Hickox), and selections from "42 Brief Hebrew Art Songs" (performed by Cantor Izthak Emanuel, former cantor at Congregation Beth David in Saratoga, with Mr. Blumenfeld at the piano).
www.aarons-world.com
8pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave.
concert and discussion
12 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
A Multi-Media Event, with Michael Kimbell, Elizabeth Lee, and the Opus Project Ensemble, in music including
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)Peleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (1903)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)Two Portraits, Op. 5 (1908)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909)
Alban Berg (1885-1935)Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)String Quartet No. 1, Op. 5 (1912)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5 (1920)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)Overture to "The School for Scandal", Op. 5 (1931)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)The Lord's Prayer, Op. 5 (1975)
8pm to 10pm, 2133 University
8 pm
Alee Karim - guitar
Solo space rock for daydreamers
www.aleekarim.com/sounds
9 pm
Evelyn Davis - piano
Jeanie-Aprille Tang - electronics, percussion
Evelyn Davis is an improvisor, inside pianist/pianist, organist, composer, and songwriter originally from Detroit, MI, primarily focused on psychoacoustic spectral phenomenon within dronal improvisation and the timbral properties of the inside piano, with create assistive mallets, toys, and tools created out of wood, metal, and rubber.
Jeanis-Aprille Tang is an electro-acoustic composer and improviser. Born in Hong Kong, she gravitates to rhythms of construction sites, roaming traffic, inaudible conversations, and airplanes. Natural and synthetic worlds are the polar opposites in her sonic practice. Her instrument is a collection of individual acoustic objects and electronic hardware.
8pm to 10:30pm, 2133 University Avenue
"As You Like It" directed by Maria Calderazzo
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University Ave.
8 pm
Nathan Clevenger - guitar
Kasey Knudsen - alto saxophone
Crystal Pascucci - cello
Sam Bevan - bass
9 pm
Song and Dance
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Cory Wright - reeds
Jordan Glenn - drums
Karl Evangelista's Song & Dance Trio is a longstanding collaboration with baritone saxophonist Cory Wright and drummer Jordan Glenn, a functional jazz trio that explores the nexus between free improvisation, rock elements, and noise music. The Song & Dance Trio synthesizes its influences into songs that are unique, surprising, and yes--fun and danceable.Tiny Mix Tapes calls Evangelista's music "essential current and future listening," and fans of Canterbury prog rock, 60's Impulse! records, and Bay Area pop will find plenty to enjoy in Song & Dance's special blend.
8pm to 9pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
After collaborating in different ways since 2003, Charles Celeste Hutchins and Polly Moller decided to make their partnership official, becoming the performance art duo No More Twist! Charles Celeste Hutchins is a Californian abroad, testing Philip K Dick's theory that once you become a Berkeley radical, you can never leave. He explores issues of regional identity, plays music, goes to school and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth. Polly Moller is a flutist, vocalist, and composer equally at home in the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary composition, and rock, performing with Reconnaissance Fly, ReCardiacs Fly, and Ghost in the House and creating sound-art rituals based on natural phenomena and the Western occult tradition.
composition for electric guitar
Konrad Sprenger (Joerg Hiller, born 1977, Lahr, Germany) is a composer/ producer and artist based in Berlin. Since 2000 he also runs the label choose records. He has produced recordings by such diverse artists as Ellen Fullman, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Ashley and Terry Fox and has performed for years as Konrad Sprenger with such luminary bands as Ethnostress and Ei and the art group Honey-Suckle Company. Since 2000 Hiller/Sprenger regularly tours and performs together with the minimal music composer Arnold Dreyblatt.
His music and installation work have been presented among others at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Cubitt Gallery, London; Podewil, Berlin; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Gallery Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Schaubühne, Berlin; Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Bundespressekonferenz, Berlin; Sonar-festival, Barcelona; Berghain, Berlin; Theatre Arsenic, Lausanne.
"Sprenger spends years in studio production on his work, and the compositions show his attention to detail in their luminosity and almost tactile presence. The range of musical styles is as diverse as on his first record, yet the pieces seem less like ironic quotations and short forays and more like personal statements and explorations into various genres. As always with Sprenger/Hiller, the instrumentation is infinitely surprising, including classical, folk instruments and electronics performed by professional musicians as well as the friends from other disciplines with whom he's worked together for many years."
--Arnold Dreyblatt on Versprochen
Konrad Sprenger will present a composed work for a computer-controlled electric guitar that he designed.
7:30pm to 10pm, 2133 University
concert and discussion
12 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
Laugh City is a high energy stand up comedy showcase that has been featured in venues across the state and presents a lineup of national headliners, Lyall Behrens, veteran host and local up and coming comedians opening the show.
$15 Donation
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University
"Measure for Measure", directed by Laura Lundy-Paine
donation $10 wheelchair accessible
276-3871
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University Ave
concert and discussion
12 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
This unique octet bring together jazz and classical musicians to build a lush sound, punctuated by driving rhythms and improvisations. Original works by bandleader McQuarry as well as creative take on jazz standards, pop songs and classical favorites arranged for woodwinds, strings and rhythm section. Featuring Nancy Bien, cello; Laura Austin Wiley, piccolo/flute/vocals; Michele Walther, violin; Georgianna Krieger, saxes; Michele Mastin viola; Stephen McQuarry, piano; Ted Burik, bass and Greg German drums.
8pm to 10pm, 2133 University
8 pm
are you fish?
phillip greenlief - saxophones
steuart liebig - electric bass, effects
dax compise - percussion
are you fish? is a trio unit that skirts the microscopic detail associated with electro-acoustic improvisation and expressionist elements found in free jazz.
9 pm
BLUE CRANES
Reed Wallsmith - alto saxophone
Joe Cunningham - tenor saxophone
Rebecca Sanborn - keyboards
Keith Brush - bass
Ji Tanzer - drums
Since their formation in 2007, Blue Cranes have become a key player in the Portland, Oregon creative music/DIY scene and one of the most exciting groups to keep tabs on in the Northwest. They've developed a singular musical voice grounded in melody and explosive improvisations--marking off their unique microcosmic territory in "post-jazz" circles.
The group is on tour in support of their fourth full length album, Swim. Produced by The Decemberists' Nate Query, it is the band's debut on Cuneiform Records. It will be released on CD and Limited Edition Colored Vinyl.
8pm to 10pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck and Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART
"Richard III" directed by Jonathan Carpenter
$10 donation
wheelchair accessible
276-8871
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University Avenue
Elektra Schmidt - chamber music ensemble
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
concert and discussion
12 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
8 pm
9 pm
Thomas Dimuzio - live electronics
8pm to 10:30pm, 2133 University Ave.
"Titus Andronicus" directed by James Nelson
$10 donation
276-3871 wheelchair accessible
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University Ave.
8 pm
Randy McKean - reeds
John Finkbeiner - guitar
Jordan Glenn - drums
Inspired by the asymmetric intricacies of Tyft, the brainy freebop of Rob Brown, and the herky jerk of XTC and the Minutemen, saxophonist Randy McKean enters the electric realm with his latest project Mock Mach I. He has assembled the crack team of guitarist John Finkbeiner and percussionist Jordan Glenn to aid him in this first attempt to break the sound barrier. They'll be testing new and borrowed originals from the McKean tool kit, with an occasional cover and improvisational fuel added to the mix.
When not testing the laws of physics, McKean leads or co-leads several bands, including the chamber jazz quartet Bristle (w/Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa & Murray Campbell), the improv trio Pluck Vim Vigour (w/Ross Hammond), avant-folk duo Sawbones (w/Maxima Kahn), and the acoustic-electronics duos Wild Horsey Ride (w/Wes Steed), Zap! (w/David Dvorin) and The Gargantius Effect (w/Campbell). He has composed works for string quartet and symphony orchestra. McKean's releases include the CDs Wild Horsey Ride, Bristle's Bulletproof (Edgetone), So Dig This Big Crux (Rastascan), the Great Circle Saxophone Quartet's Child King Dictator Fool (New World), and the electronic release Gargantius Effect +1+2+3 (w/Han-earl Park, Gino Robair & Scott Looney). He studied with trumpeter Paul Smoker and composers Anthony Braxton, David Rosenboom, and Maggi Payne. He currently lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Grass Valley, CA.
9 pm
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Eli Wallace - piano
Jon Arkin - drums
Arkin, Evangelista, and Wallace recently began playing music together at the beginning of 2013. Through their musical interactions they found a common desire to explore the boundaries of improvisation while still adhering to the jazz idiom. Form and an orthodox sense of rhythm come and go, a constant push and pull that creates unpredictable and impelling musical dialogue. For this concert we will play originals and tunes written by Carla Bley.
8pm to 10pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
concert and discussion
12 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
Laugh City is a high energy stand up comedy showcase that has been featured in venues across the state and presents a lineup of national headliners, Lyall Behrens, veteran host and local up and coming comedians opening the show.
$15 Admission
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University
Karl Evangelista's Sun Ra Project
Dan Clucas - trumpet
David Boyce - tenor saxophone
Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone
Karl Evangelista - guitar
? - bass
Jordan Glenn - drums
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shuattuck & Oxford
8 pm
Lindsey Walker - voice, electronic processing
9 pm
mchtsnchts
kyle bruckmann - electronics
lance grabmiller - electronics
The new duo of Mchtnchts consists of Kyle Bruckmann and Lance Grabmiller, both working solely within the realm of analogue synthesis. After spending many years as active members of the Bay Area music community, especially under the guise of shudder (with Phillip Greenlief), the duo have finally been able to bring their love of analogue gear and sounds together. By turns sublime and brutal, electricity is bent beneath their fingers to form vast soundscapes and minute figures for your enjoyment.
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
"Henry IV, Part I" directed by Hallie Frazer
donation $10
276-3871 wheelchair accessible
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University Avenue
8 pm
Joe Lasqo - piano
Donald Robinson - drums
9 pm
Tango #9
Catharine Clune - Violin
Zoltan DiBartolo - Voice
Joshua Brody - Piano
Greg Stephens - Trombone
special guest: Isabel Douglass - accordion
Presenting music old and new, Tango No. 9 embarks on an exciting musical adventure, borrowing from the rich tango tapestry, beginning with Astor Piazzolla and then adding a touch of Kurt Weill, a dash of humor and a pinch of West Coast modernism.
Tango No. 9, born in the Mission District in 1988, began by exploring where Piazzolla and jazz met. Today, it has become an all-star Bay Area ensemble, recognizable by its unique instrumentation of violin, trombone, piano, and voice. The group delves deeply into the world of tango, recording four critically acclaimed albums, presenting numerous concerts and is constantly exploring different facets of the unique Latin chamber music, the tango.
8pm to 10pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
concert and discussion
12 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
Laugh City is a high energy stand up comedy showcase that has been featured in venues across the state and presents a lineup of national headliners, Lyall Behrens, veteran host and local up and coming comedians opening the show.
$15 Donation
7:30pm to 9:30pm, 2133 University Ave.
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)Song, Op. 6, No. 3 (1905)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)Bagatelles, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6 (1908)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)Melodie, Op. 6, No. 1 (1908)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)Two Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, Nos. 1-2 (1909)
Alban Berg (1885-1935)Piece for Orchestra, Op. 6, No. 1 (1914)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)Dreams, Op. 6 (1910)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Waltz, Op. 6, No. 1 (1916)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 6 (1922)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)Cello Sonata, Op. 6, No. 1 (1931)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6, No. 1
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)Variations and Theme, Op. 6 (1976)
8pm to 10pm, 2133 University Avenue
8 pm
Perpetual Motion (Los Angeles)
Derek Bomback - guitar
Alexander Vogel - saxophones
Alan Cook-drums - percussion
Perpetual Motian was created to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of the late great Paul Motian, and the immensity of his contributions to the world of creative music. His uniquely individual voice, as a drummer and composer, lay at the heart of every ensemble he led or was a part of. Perpetual Motian seeks to build upon the incredibly high standards he set throughout his career. The trio harnesses the individual improvisatory strengths of its members and channels them through Motian's compositional genius to create a substantially greater whole.
9 pm
kyle bruckmann - james falzone (chicago) - more details to follow
8pm to 10:30pm, 2133 University Ave.
$10.50 advance / $12.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm to 10pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison
8 pm
Bruce Ackley - soprano saxophone
Thollem McDonas - piano
Karen Stackpole - gongs and percussion
Ackley is a founding member of Rova; Thollem is our vagabonding hero keyboardist; and Karen "Gongwoman" Stackpole is local maestro of the vibration. Although this is the first opportunity for this trio to perform publicly, they have each played together in different settings. It is their mutual affinities that have drawn them together for the Berkeley Arts performance, which is sure to delight and surprise listeners.
9 pm
Michael Vlatkovich Quintet
Michael Vlatkovich - trombone
Tom McNalley - guitar
Scott Walton - bass
John Hanes - drums
Steve Adams - saxophones
This is insane music for a crazy world, composed by Michael Vlatkovich, who continues to attempt to give the population an unfiltered, unedited view of themselves. This music is something they will be able to take home with them. Insanity runs deep, like a river, like music itself.
8pm to 9pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
My encaustic paintings reflect my deep concern with the fabric of our lives and our engagement with the environment. In 1992 I first painted with hot beeswax and pigment, my first encaustic paintings. Initially I found the textural qualities and color of encaustic painting the perfect medium for expressing feelings of loss and human engagement. Each day I asked myself “What If?” as I investigated what this new medium invited. As I worked with beeswax, pigment and natural materials my paintings increasingly reflected my personal intimate relationship with nature, the peace and healing I find in the natural world, its rhythms and cycles.
This exhibition includes work from each group of paintings done in the last 20 years 1992-2012. inclu They reflect my patient engagement with materials as I create a whole from the accumulation of repeated acts. My recent paintings are a meditation on the rhythms and music in nature, creating an experience of peace and healing.
Ms. Marks is represented by Vessel Gallery in Oakland.