Berkeley Arts Festival

Darwin Day

YOU ARE INVITED TO DARWIN DAY TO SEE TWO NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS!

DR. WILLIAM COLLINS and DR. JAYANT SATHAYE shared the Nobel Peace Prize as members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations for work summarizing human-caused climate change. This panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Both scientists will speak on climate change. Dr. Collins' talk is titled "Human-induced Climate Disruption: Consequences and Solutions", and Dr. Sathaye's talk is titled "The Climate Crisis". The speakers will plan their talks together beforehand, so their talks will not overlap, but supplement each other in an informative, interesting style.

And evolutionary biologist and Darwin Day organizer DAVID SEABORG will be dressed as and impersonate Charles Darwin, and give an exciting talk titled "The Fundamental Importance of Symbiosis in Evolution, and Human Destruction of Biodiversity". In this talk, he will describe how species work together to a far greater extent than biology recognizes, and how humans are destroying biodiversity and causing a crisis of mass extinction of species of animals and plants. He will show how more biodiversity is lost than expected because when key symbiotic species become extinct, the ecosystem is disrupted, and many other species dependent on them are lost in a domino effect. David will also show and tell about very interesting animals and fossils, which attendees will be able to hold or touch, but will not be obligated to do so. This includes a Desert Tortoise and a trilobite!

Also speaking briefly is PETER BOSSHARD, Executive Director of International Rivers, a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to saving the Earth's rivers. He will speak on "Preserving Rivers from Destruction Worldwide". Both David and Peter will explain about rainforest destruction in their talks.

There is a reception with all three speakers from 5:00 to 6:00 PM for an additional fee.

The price for adults is $23.95 if you buy tickets in advance by PayPal, and $25.95 at the door. Here is the link to buy adult tickets through PayPal. Please copy and paste it to the internet if you cannot pay by clicking on it.

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The price for children is $11.95 if you buy tickets in advance by PayPal, and $13.95 at the door. Here is the link to buy children's tickets through PayPal. Please copy and paste it to the internet if you cannot pay by clicking on it.

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The price for the reception is $139.95 if you buy tickets in advance through PayPal, and $149.95 at the door. Here is the link to buy tickets to the reception through PayPal. Please copy and paste it to the internet if you cannot pay by clicking on it.

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Here is the link to make donations to support Darwin Day (not tax-deductible). These help people who could not otherwise afford it attend Darwin Day, as well as supporting David Seaborg's work. Please copy and paste it to the internet if you cannot donate by clicking on it.

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The last day and time PayPal donations are accepted is 10:00 AM, Saturday, February 20, the day of the event.

1pm to 6pm, 2133 University Avenue

Gilda at PFA

Charles Vidor US, 1946

Digital Restoration

Gilda is perhaps the most polished of film noirs; the lacquered camerawork of cinematographer Rudolph MatÃ© seems to fix forever this vision of a world permeated by corruption and cynicism-a vision so thorough that it almost transcends the bounds of the genre. These jaundiced elements converge on the figure of Gilda (Rita Hayworth), caught in a triangle between her tycoon/casino-owner husband (George Macready) and her ex-lover (Glenn Ford). Her sultry rendition of "Put the Blame on Mame," while nightclub patrons' hands reach out for her in the dark, just about says it all, where no one gets anything-even love-for nothing. Judy Bloch

- See more at: http://bampfa.org/node/197266#sthash.HbusPIMC.dpuf

4pm to 5pm, BAMPFA 2155 Center Street

Found on Curb: The Recycled Art of Luci Lytle

Artists' reception for Luci Lytle and mosaic landscape artist Laura Rendlen

In the early 1970s Luci Lytle hitchhiked all over this country, which sparked her concern with the environment, recycling, and overpopulation. These days the former Berkeley resident travels around in a motorhome and her focus as an artist connects to these concerns.

"I am fascinated by the things that others discard," she says.
"I can visualize a use for almost everything."

Over the years she developed her own style of mosaic art using corrugated paper as a substrate, incorporating glass, stones, found objects and electronic components into a wholly original art. About 95% to 99% of her art materials are recycled.

A sampling of her works are on view at the Institute of Mosaic Art in Berkeley, through March 31.

Since Lytle gathers more materials on the road than she can use, she opened an online shop, FOUNDonCURB. (www.ETSY.com/shop/FOUNDonCURB) This coming weekend, Lytle will park her van in the IMA patio so you can poke through her stock of road treasures and find something to [re] use. This is heaven for mosaic and mixed media artists. Stop by! Bring friends! Happy hunting!

through Sunday, February 21, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m

5pm to 7pm, Institute of Mosaic Art, 805 Allston Way,

Amy Reed and Collette McCaslin

First set
Amy and Collette are are two women with very integrated approaches to music, especially improvisation. Their duo corresponds to a logic of magical thinking that is formed by deeper subconscious stirrings. Together, their percussive and subtle sounds wind in and out of synergy, sometimes clashing, sometimes relating in sublime synchronicity.

Collette on percussion and wind instruments (trumpet, flutes etc;) calls to mind meditations of a deliberate nature.

Amy Reed on Guitar has the delicate ringing string technique that reminds of us that a guitar can sound like many bells all sounding in quiet but determined intent.

They will play a set of freely improvised music.

Second set
Adam Adhiyatma and Kaori Suzuki

Adam Adhiyatma is a clarinetist, guitarist, electronic composer and improviser from Singapore. They are interested in formal, mystical and ritual uses of sound. They like to think about voices; multiple voices issuing from the same body, hydras, the ensuing confusion, and the ensuing ecstasy. Adam's work is [noisy, architectural, lyrical, angry, rhythmic, highly dissonant, very loud, very quiet.] It is connected by an investment in music's social, political and mystical (bodily)
power, a history in jazz, rock and experimental music (even though it seldom sounds like any of those things), as well as a deep curiosity about the phenomena that are composition, listening, and improvisation.

Adam performs, programs and composes electronic music under the alias
thumbthumb.
http://adamadhiyatma.com/

Kaori Suzuki (b. Japan) is a composer of electronic music based in Oakland, CA. As a solo performer she explores modes of immediacy and the habitable nature of sounds through synthesis and programming,often using analog systems, location recordings, and custom machines.
Having spent several years in the Pacific Northwest as an educator and developing her experimental building project, Magic Echo Music, she currently resides back in Oakland to pursue an MFA in electronic music at Mills College. She has performed and presented at various venues including the Chapel Performance Space for Wayward Music Series
(Seattle), Brava Theater Center (SF), Mix NYC (NYC), BAMPFA (Berkeley), and Debacle Fest (Seattle)

8pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave.