Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. In February the program features author Anthony Marra.
Anthony Marra has won a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. His first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, won the National Book Critics Circle's inaugural John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award. Marra's novel was a National Book Award longlist selection as well as a shortlist selection for the Flaherty-Dunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2012. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he currently teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland.
Free and open to the public.
5pm to 6pm, UC Berkeley Morrison Library
Presented by the David Brower Center
6:30 - 9:30 pm Reception
7 pm Curator Lecture
8 pm Art from a Changing Arctic film screening
Free; $10 Suggested Donation
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In its first show of 2016, the David Brower Center presents Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012, a multi-media exhibition tracing the effects of frozen landscapes on artistic imaginations over two hundred years.
Image credit: Grand Pinnacle Iceberg, East Greenland, from the Last Iceberg by Camille Seaman, 2006, courtesy of the artist and Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
6:30pm to 9:30pm, David Brower Center, Allston Way,
2nd Thursday Conscientious Projector Film Series
Episode 3: Miracle Workers and Episode 4: Bay in the Balance
A film by Ron Blatman and KQED Public Television
We will also be honoring Sylvia McLaughlin who died recently at 99. She was always a most gracious friend of our BFUU. Her daughter and granddaughter were treasured, active members for years.
These episodes show how she was a miracle worker who in the 1960's saved our beautiful bay that every human inhabitant (Miwoks, Ohlone) of the Bay has depended on. From the earliest inhabitants 5,000 years ago through the Gold Rush, the Mexican period, the Gold Rush, the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, to Silicon Valley, we needed this bay which drains a third of California. Now the Bay is one of the world's leading economic, academic, recreational and cultural regions. Narrated by Robert Redford, don't miss this film which highlights an unforgetable journey.
7pm to 8pm, BFUU Cedar at Bonita
$23 adv / $25 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
$13 adv/$16 day of show. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States