Pianist Jerry Kuderna plays from classics to the newest compositions.
12 noon to 1:30pm, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Book Party for Harvey Smith: " Berkeley and the New Deal: Artistic, Architectural and Social Legacy"
Berkeley’s 1930s and early 1940s New Deal structures and projects left a lasting legacy of utilitarian and beautiful infrastructure. These public buildings, schools, parks, and artworks helped shape the city and thus the lives of its residents; it is hard to imagine Berkeley without them. The artists and architects of these projects mention several themes: working for the community, responsibility, the importance of government support, collaboration, and creating a cultural renaissance. These New Deal projects, however, can be called “hidden history” because their legacies have been mostly ignored and forgotten. Comprehending the impact of the New Deal on one American city is only possible when viewed as a whole.
Harvey Smith is project advisor to the Living New Deal and board president of the National New Deal Preservation Association. He has been researching this part of Berkeley’s history for more than two decades. The images in this volume have been selected from local and national archives and from the author’s contemporary photographs of the living legacy of the New Deal.
Pre-meeting coffee, soft drinks, wine, and conversation from 11:20 in the Venetian Room. Lunch served from 11:45 to 12:15. Lunch is $18.00; coffee only is $1.00. Speaker begins at 12:30 and meeting adjourns at 1:30. Visitors are welcome: please call for lunch reservations by the Tuesday before the Friday meeting: Jane Barrett--(510) 845-8055(510) 845-8055 or e-mail to [email protected].
12:30 noon to 1:30pm, Berkeley City Club at 2315 Durant Avenue
Karate Mountain is an instrumental indie rock band that plays all-original, emotionally charged music with equal parts honesty, passion, and irreverence. Borrowing influence from artists like The Bad Plus, Bjork, and Vampire Weekend, Karate Mountain's second full-length album, entitled "More than Ever Before", fearlessly traverses a wide range of emotion with intensity and simplicity. On Friday, December 19th, the band performs all the music from this new album and a little more.
7pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave.
The Paul Wood Blues Band
PAUL WOOD b. c.1952, Oakland, California, USA. The son of beat poet Paul Tulley, Wood took up the guitar at the age of 11, soon turning to the blues. At 20 he was with John Lee Hooker as a member of the leading bluesman's Coast To Coast Blues Band, touring with him for two years. In this band, Wood's fellow sidemen included Elvin Bishop, Don 'Sugarcane' Harris, Van Morrison, Charlie Musselwhite and L.C. Robinson. He toured Europe in the mid-90s from a base in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and towards the end of the decade, back now in the USA, he relocated to Memphis, Tennessee.
Wood began recording under his own name in the late 90s, and during the next few years greatly expanded his fan-base. During this period, he also began writing his own material, which echoed his deep interest in and knowledge of traditional blues.
Features: Paul Wood recording artist on lead and rhythm guitar former lead player for blues legend John Lee Hooker. His own recordings include "Blues is my Business" most recently.
THE BAND
Dave Jacobsen keyboards, formerly with Eric Martin Band, 415, and rock artists UFO.
Tom Richardson percussion, a forty year drum veteran who competed in several famous award winning drum lines prior to playing rock and blues professionally.
Myron Smallin Bass, Former University of Pacific Conservatory alumni. Seventeen year country, rock and blues bassist. Veteran of rock and roll for over 42 years.
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Growing up in the French provinces, Madame Gufay was fascinated by news reports of the Free Speech Movement (the FSM) which fermented on the campus of U.C. Berkeley and resonated worldwide. Now, having returned to school late in life, she has arranged to finish her last semester studying at her own personal mecca, U.C. Berkeley. Madame Gufay is a force of nature, and her wacky, goofy efforts to experience Free Speech in the present day involve most campus life: the administration and academics, the classroom, the library, Sproul Plaza demonstrations and, of course graduation.
Madame Gufay overcomes language challenges, academic arrogance, uncontrollable urges, public drunkenness, lewd and lascivious behavior, to the fulfillment of innocent wacky, goofy dreams. To be sure, Madame Gufay and her activist Lovelutionaries do care passionately about social justice and they advocate for world peace, justice, not to mention lowering tuition for public universities!
Directed by Alan Barkan, by Norah Foster. With Simone Bloch, Sarang Cho Lee, Chris Habash, Scott Alexander Ayres, Edward Kimak, Tom Westlake, Alicia Barela, Vicki Zabarte, Patrick Glenn, Martha Luehrmann, Chris Cruz, CJ Gross, Cai Shaotian, Andrea Granera.
Tickets are available at www.aeofberkeley.org
8pm to 10pm, 1301 Walnut Street