$4 kids/$6 adults. 525-5054. ww.ashkenaz.com
3pm to 4:30pm, Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo
Oakland writers Clive Matson, Richard Loranger, and Karla Brundage are proud to announce the debut of Poetry Unbound, a new monthly reading series at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. This series dedicates itself to presenting new work in a broad range of styles and genres, and to bringing together writers from different circles and communities, to strengthen and unite. Poetry Unbound will feature three writers on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic. The hosts expect to occasionally feature music along with the poets, and special events as well.
Poetry Unbound will kick off by featuring three East Bay poets of local and national renown. Ingrid Keir, co-founder of Word Party and bi-coastal poetry addict, will rock the foundations with her lyrical techtonics. Tomas Moniz, anarcho-chicano writer of the zine Rad Dad and co-host of multiple East Bay reading series, will paint the walls with pleasantries and vandalisms. And John Rowe, Berkeley native and president of the Bay Area Poets Coalition, will blow out the roof with his incisive verse.
$5 donation or more, no one turned away
510-472-3170
5pm to 8pm, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shattuck Ave
$15/$10 staff & students. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
7pm, Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo
The La Peña Community Chorus has been singing songs of peace, justice, and hope since it began in 1978. Started by the Chilean exile community who founded La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley in 1975, the original mission of the Chorus was one of solidarity with the resistance against the dictatorship in Chile. But over the years our focus has expanded to other countries, including the struggles of people in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Cuba, and to various labor, community, and women’s struggles closer to home.
$15
www.lapena.org
7:30pm to 9:30pm, La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave.
Pet the Tiger: Rusty Sonatas
Peter Bonos, horns; Ian Saxton, percussion; David Samas, inventions w/ special guests Tom Nunn and Bryan Day, invented instruments.
Three Trapped Tigers: 14th and 21st century recorder music
Ton Bickley and David Barnett, recorders
Tiger in the Tall Grass: Digitalia and Analogues
Amar Chaudhary, aps and electronics; David Samas, voice
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
$22.50 advance / $24.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison