FEATURING
ELIOT KENIN
SINGER-BANJO PLAYER-STORYTELLER-SOCIAL ACTIVIST
Eliot Kenin has been singing and agitating for peace and social justice since he was a high school student in the fifties. In the early sixties he was the founding director of the Philadelphia Folk Workshop, one of the earliest of the folk music schools. For the past thirty something years he has led the Spirit of '29, an old time New Orleans style jazz band, and for the past fifteen years he has led the Reinhardt Swing Band. Currently he serves as president of the Contra Costa County local of the Musicians Union.
Followed by the Open Mic: "You show us yours & we'll show you ours"
1pm to 4pm, North Berkeley Senior Center 1901 Hearst Ave
Lecture by Susan Oxtoby. Response by Nathaniel Dorsky
A POW comes home to discover that his wife has prostituted herself to pay their son's hospital bills. "Ozu brilliantly and honestly confronts the postwar moment" (Joan Mellen).
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50.
- See more at: http://www.bampfa.org/program/focus-japanese-film-classics#sthash.bXOjBHfj.dpuf
3pm to 6pm, BAMPFA 2155 Center Street
As an increasing amount of social interaction moves online, we can use computational ideas to study human phenomena that were once essentially invisible to us: how our social networks are organized, how groups of people come together, and how information spreads through society. Review some of the things learned through this computational perspective with Professor Jon Kleinberg of Cornell University, including the role of algorithms in shaping our on-line experience, and the evolving nature of social connectedness in the digital age.
Theoretically Speaking is a new lecture series produced by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, highlighting exciting advances in theoretical computer science for a broad general audience. Events are held at the David Brower Center in Downtown Berkeley, and are free and open to the public. No special background is assumed.
6pm to 7:30pm, David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way
Tickets on sale Wed. 3/30 at 12:30 pm. $10. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
7:30pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
$7. Balkan dance lesson at 7:00 pm. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center,1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States