Berkeley Arts Festival Calendar

07/12/2014

Stories of Queer Diaspora at La Peña

Join us in celebrating how Queer im/migrant and 1st/2nd generation folks unapologetically navigate their bodies, gender, culture, sexuality, and history through a night of intergenerational performance art, dance, music, mixed media, and spoken word!

Curated by Erika Vivianna Céspedes

Guest Artists include: *Nazbah Tom, *Candy Guinea, *Jaq Victor, *Dezi Solèy, *Rani Marcos, *Karlita Flores, *Mitali Purkayastha, *A.”Q” Quintero, *TextaQueen,*Sarah Cargill,
*Ana María Agüero Jahannes, *Youth Speaks Queeriosity Poets

Hosted by: Yosimar Reyes & Kat Evasco
$10 (No one turned away)
This event will sell out!

6:30pm to 9:30pm, 3105 Shattuck Avenue


Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art.

Kala Art Institute in partnership with the San Francisco Cinematheque present Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art.
Saturdays in July

The publication includes a 50-page booklet of writing and images bound in a hand-made letterpress cover.

July 12, 7-9pm:
Mark Wilson with Marielle Jakobsons
Andy Puls
Keith Evans
Lawrence Jordan with John Davis

This series is curated and organized by Kala Fellowship Artist John Davis.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5 - $20.

7pm to 9pm, Kala Art Institute Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Ave


Redd Welsh CD Release Party

(Come early at 6 pm to socialize. Alex Bagwell on jazz piano)

Celebrating Redd's blockbuster new record CLASS WAR
Come one! Come all! – to Berkeley’s friendly Fellowship Hall to herald the release of Dave
Welsh's new CD. Now performing as Redd Welsh, he sings a dozen mostly original songs
on the album, backed by some fine musicians including producer/arranger Pete Elman
on keyboards and bass; veteran ‘60s rocker John Blakeley on Stratocaster, Telecaster and
acoustic guitars; complete horn & rhythm sections, and the incomparable Reed Fromer
on harmony vocals.

7pm to 9pm, Fellowship Hall -- Berkeley Unitarians, 1924 Cedar


REUNION CONCERT THE PRATT FAMILY SINGERS

Greg Pratt & LaWanda Ultan A REUNION OF FAMILY and FRIENDS!
The performance is Greg and LaWanda , who had her own cafe gig in Paris at Chez Bob! On Banjo. Also joining us will be Greg's mother Marcia Pratt, and sister Bethany Raine, part of the Pratt Family Singers, and Good Ol' Persons and Any Old Time String Band. Sister Esperanza from Canyon will also sing. Guest Performer Will Scarlett of Hot Tuna and many other bands, will play harmonica, and other guests will contribute as well, for a reunion gig, doing old songs and new!

7PM Door 8PM SHOW!
510-472-3170
All Ages & Wheelchair Accessible

$10.00 - $20.00 Donation at door

8pm to 10pm, Art House Gallery 2905 Shattuck Ave.


Central Works: Dracula Inquest, Opening Night

Written by Gary Graves
Directed by Jan Zvaifler
Jul 12–Aug 17

Dracula Inquest brings Bram Stoker’s iconic tale of horror to life, and promises to scare the hell out of you!
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.” ―Bram Stoker

The year is 1895. Detective Avery Sly from Scotland Yard arrives in the bowels of an eerie asylum for the criminally insane. He has come to interrogate four inmates about the disappearance of a mysterious nobleman from Transylvania.

As the inquest unfolds, some very unsettling questions begin to emerge: was Count Dracula really a demonic vampire, as the inmates claim? Or was he, in fact, the innocent victim of a bizarre and ritualistic murder conspiracy?

Centralworks.org

8pm to 10pm, Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue


Shasta String Celebration

Hosted by Tristan and Tashina Clarridge. $24 advance / $26 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org

8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street