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Art Centers& Museums

 

Berkeley Art Center

Through July 14
(except closed June 30-July 4)
Watershed. Exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation exploring watershed, the area of land that catches rain and drains into marshes, streams, rivers, lakes and groundwater. Work by Barbara Adair, Lee Michael Altman, Spencer Chen, Nikki B. Davis, Danae Mattes, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Anne Subercaseaux, and Brain Tripp & George Blake.

Wed - Sun, Noon to 5 pm

1275 Walnut Street Bus # 7, 9, 43, 67

644-6893 www.berkeleyartcenter.org


Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

The Museum is closed for retrofitting. PFA programs continue uninterrupted at New PFA Theater.
2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch Bus # 7, 51

642-1412; 642-1124 (recorded schedule) www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/


Berkeley Historical Society

The Decade of Change: 1900-1910
A museum, library and archive of local history.

Veteran's Building 1931 Center St

All Buses and Berkeley BART

Thurs, Fri, Sat, 1 - 4 pm

848-0181


The Crucible

An educational collaboration of arts and industry offers classes in welding, glasscasting, stonecarving, and clay.
1035 Murray St Bus # 6, 72, 73

843-5511 www.thecrucible.org


JazzSchool/La Note

The Bay Area's only jazz school offers a full array of classes.
Sunday Concerts, 4:30 pm

2377 Shattuck Bus #7, 40, 43, 51,

845-5373


KALA Art Institute

Berkeley's venerable printmaking and multimedia workshop.
Through June 29: Inside Editions

1060 Heinz Ave Bus # 6,72,73

Tues - Fri, noon - 5 pm

549-2977


Judah L. Magnes Museum

Through May 2002
Telling Time: To Everything There is a Season

2911 Russell St Bus # 51, or #6

Sun - Thurs, 10 am - 4 pm

549-6950


Julia Morgan Center for the Arts

2640 College Ave Bus #51
845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org


MusicSources

A collection of early keyboard instruments.
1000 The Alameda Bus #15

By appointment

526-1685


La Peña Cultural Center

A center of lively multicultural activity with music, poetry, visual arts, theater.
3105 Shattuck Avenue

Bus #43 or Ashby BART

849-2568 www.lapena.org


Poetry Flash @ Cody's

Poetry reading series
Cody's Books

2454 Telegraph Ave Bus #40

Poetry Flash 525-5476

www.poetryflash.org


Pusod Center for Culture,

Ecology and Bayan Babilonia 1808
Through July 16

COLORED: black 'n white. Filipinos in American Popular Media, 1896-1904

June 16 - July 28

Bay Area artists Kara Maria and Keka

1808 Fifth St

Wed-Sat, 11 am - 5 pm

883-1808 bwf


The Tinkers' Workshop

A combination of artists' studio, science lab and community service organization based on doing real things.
1336 Channing Way Bus #65

644-2577


Galleries & Libraries

 


ACCI Gallery

Through June 23,
The Landscape Show

Through June 30

Joanne Beaule Ruggles

1652 Shattuck Avenue Bus # 7, 9, 43

Mon-Fri, 11 am - 6pm,

Sat, 10 am - 6 pm

843-2527


Addison Street Windows

Always open. Shows a great variety of work by local artists from the very old to the very young, highly trained and self-taught.
Addison between Shattuck and Milvia


The Ames Gallery

A Few of My Favorite Things
Gallery features antique, utilitarian Americana and work by contemporary self-taught, visionary, or outsider artists.

weekdays 11 am to 3 pm.

2661 Cedar St

845-4949


BACCA 1010 - Bay Area Center for the Consolidated Arts

Through June 22
Maria Morganti and Chris Natrop Exhibition

Thurs, Fri, Sat, 10 am - 6 pm

1010 Murray St

Bus #51 to 72,73 or #43 to 6

486-0520 www.bacca1010.com


Bancroft Library and Doe Library

Through July 1
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive and Oral History Project.

UC Campus Bus #7, 51

Mon - Thurs, 9 am - 6 pm;

Fri, 9 am - 5 pm; Sun, 1 - 5 pm

642-3782


Coastlines

Through October 14
Installation by Berkeley landscape architect Tom Leader is part of the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Revelatory Landscapes.

Site maps at Amtrack station at foot of University Ave or

University Ave and West Frontage Rd

Bus #51, 51M, 9 and 65. www.sfmoma.org/landscape.


Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

Through August 8
Bernard Maisner: Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings

Through August 24

Collages by Jennifer Colby

Mon - Fri, 8:30 am - 5 pm;

Tues until 9

2400 Ridge Rd Bus #65

649-2541


Cecile Moochnek Gallery.

Group show featuring Milton Bowens, Liliana Caheda, Hedi Desuyo, Carol Dalton, Oliver Gagliani, Ines Kramer, Susan Jokelson, Seiko Tachibana and other gallery artists.
Wed - Sun, noon to 5 pm

1809 Fourth St Bus # 9, 51, 65

549-1018

A New Leaf Gallery


Illusions in Space: Susan Pascal Beran, Benbow Bullock, David Fried, Jeffrey Laudenslager, John Mishler, Paul Sable, Arthur Silverman, John Tyler.

Wed - Fri, 11 am - 5 pm;
Sat - Sun, 10 am - 5 pm

1286 Gilman Bus #9, 67

525-7621


Our Own Stuff

Garden and Gallery
A world of surprises by Marcia Donahue and Mark Bulwinkle.

3017 Wheeler St Bus #6, 43

Open most Sundays noon - 5 pm

540-8544


Peralta Art Garden

Showcase of art in community gardens
Hopkins St and Peralta Ave

Bus #9, 67

527-7162


Tattoo Archive

Through June 30
Scarification explores practice of body decoration in Africa and Australia.

Mon - Sat, noon - 8 pm

2804 San Pablo Bus #6, 72, 73

548-5895


Traywick Gallery

Through July 14
Rachel Davis & Benicia Gantner:

New works on paper

Tues - Sat, 11 am - 6 pm

1316 Tenth St Bus #52

www.traywick.com


Theater

Aurora Theatre Company
Through July 15

David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre

Wed - Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 2 and 7 pm


Berkeley City Club

2315 Durant Ave
843-4822


Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Through July 8
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

2025 Addison St

647-2949


Shotgun Players

June 23 - July 12
Euripides' Iphegenia in Aulis

John Hinkel Park Bus #7

Saturday and Sunday at 5 pm



Music Clubs

Anna's

1801 University Bus #51
849-2662


Ashkenaz

1317 San Pablo Bus #72, 73
525-5054

Larry Blake's

2367 Telegraph Ave Bus #40, 64
848-0886 <www.blakesbar.com/div>

924 Gilman

Bus #9

525-9926


Freight & Salvage

1111 Addison St Bus #51, 72, 73
548-1761 www.thefreight.org


Jupiter

2181 Shattuck BART All Buses
843-7625


Starry Plough

3101 Shattuck Bus #43

841-2082



Carefree/Carfree Tours

For the last two weeks in June, to help you search out and savor the sights and sounds of Berkeley, the Berkeley Arts Festival is offering free guided group tours to exhibitions, events and performances on regular AC Transit buses. Explore the city by bus and on foot and you will be doing a favor for yourself and the environment. Tours are conducted by artists, environmentalists, gardeners, neighbors and one of the city's most devoted and knowledgeable bus riders.

These tours are a lot of fun and you will learn how easy it is to get around Berkeley by bus. No reservations are necessary. For information call 486-0411.

Tours originate at the Berkeley Arts Festival Gallery 2200 Shattuck Ave (except where noted). See Daily Calendar.

Jun 17, 11 am:

Coastlines with landscape architect

Tom Leader.


June 17, 1 pm:

BACCA, Juneteenth, The Crucible.


June 20, 11 am:

Photographer David Bacon tours the Oakland Museum.



June 22, 1 pm:

The Ames Gallery and MusicSources.



June 23, 1 pm:

Summer Solstice in the Park, the Watershed Exhibition at the Berkeley Art Center and the Shotgun Players in John Hinkel Park.



June 24, 1 pm:

South Berkeley Gardens: Our Own Stuff Garden and Gallery; The Dry Garden.



June 24, 1:30 pm:

North Berkeley Gardens: Codornices Creek, Peralta Art Gardens.



June 28, noon:

Opera in Bart Plaza, The Tinkers' Workshop, Babilonia 1808.



June 29, 3pm:

Free Speech Tour.


June 30, 3 pm:

McGee-Spaulding Tour.


Other Tours:

Berkeley Architectural Heritage Assoc. and Berkeley Historical Society Tours.

See daily calendar for information.
Self-Guided Tours:

Information and maps for self-guided tours available at the Festival Gallery.