Performing Arts

Join us for a Summer Reading Kickoff!

Saturday, June 4th, 2-4pm

We're taking over Kittredge in front of the Central Library, on the block between Shattuck and Harold. 

Sign up for summer reading, get your signup book, get some ice cream courtesy of Straus Family Creamery, and enjoy various performances and activities! See below for times of performances.

Oluyemi Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Wastenaw College in Ann Arbor Michigan. As a creative composer, performer, recording artist, educator and engineer. Mr. Thomas seeks to express his abiding love for the hidden power of art. He expresses this with the Bass Clarinet, Saxophones and Percussion. Oluyemi also has over twenty years teaching music in schools,workshops, private lessons and performances.      

 

 

Please join us at the Claremont Branch for three hours of live music! We'll be closing down the street for an open-air event featuring some of the Bay Area's finest performers. All ages are welcome. See you there!

3:00pm - Cascada de Flores

4:00pm - Asheba

5:00pm - California Blue Runners

 

 

Conrad J. Benedicto, musician and author of Musalya's Gift visits the library for a reading and kulintang performance.

Learn about the Japanese art of Taiko drumming. Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

All ages are welcome. 

 

This session of Musical Story Time has been canceled due to rain and muddy conditions at George Florence Park.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

Please join us for four Thursday sessions of live music, movement activities, and stories with our story time band. For children ages 2-5, but older and younger children are welcome.

Dance, sing and have fun in English and Spanish with Mariela's Music Time! Ages 0-5. Outside at the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch.

The Bay Area Jazz Mobile is coming to the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch/Tool Lending Library parking lot for a live concert! 

The Bay Area Jazz Mobile is a mobile/traveling jazz venue. A large van is filled with the necessary equipment to provide jazz concerts, clinics and workshops in parks, recreation centers, urban plazas, schools, farmers' markets, senior centers, cultural centers and city and county festivals throughout the Bay Area. 

We thank The Friends of the Berkeley Public Library for sponsoring this event.

Please join us for five Thursday sessions of live music, movement activities, and stories with our story time band. For children ages 2-5, but older and younger children are welcome.