Performing Arts

Plays, concerts

Loud in the Library: Queeraoke @Central TR

Join us for an evening of music, laughter, and self-expression at Loud in the Library: Queeraoke! Get ready to share your inner diva and embrace the spotlight as we bring the joy of karaoke to the library. This lively event will be hosted by Jota Mercury, an international award winning drag performer who uses drag to challenge machismo as we know it.

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In the Stax Music Series @THPS

Berkeley Public Library presents In The Stax Music Series

  

We have a special performance from Josh Aldana of the California Jazz Conservatory who will be playing music live at the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch. 

The California Jazz Conservatory is a long standing music conservatory in the heart of Downtown Berkeley and has been devoted solely to the study and performance of the African American art form, jazz, and related styles of music. 

Join us for a live performance of music in the library stacks on Tuesday, August 8th at 6pm.

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Jazz Tribute to Muziki Roberson @THPS

Join us as we pay tribute to Bay Area Jazz Legend Muziki Roberson. 

Muziki Roberson was a highly respected jazz pianist who had a unique style of performing that would evoke the true feeling of this soulful genre. His music was truly spiritual and he inspired and influenced Bay Area jazz music deeply.

He passed away in late August 2022 but is still remembered and celebrated by the Bay Area jazz community and his friends and family.

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In The Stax Music Series @THPS

Berkeley Public Library presents In The Stax a Music Series. 

We will have musical performances in the stacks of our library throughout the summer and fall season. Intimate performances of live music will be at all locations with this being the first installment. 

The introductory event will be performed by keyboardist Marco Casasola. Marco is a Bay Area based musician who plays every key from piano to organ. 

Join us as we kick off National Night Out with music in the library. 

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Dance & Rhythm With La Mezcla

La Mezcla is a poly rythmic dance group rooted in Chicana, Latina, Indigenous traditions and social justice. Come enjoy their award winning documentary followed by a dance demonstration.

Founded in 2015 by Dance/USA fellow Vanessa Sanchez, their work brings together Tap dance, Son Jarocho and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to bring the often unseen histories and experiences of communities of color to stages, streets and fields

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CANCELLED Music Performance by Chris Waltz & Tina Digesti @Central

CANCELLED: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  PLEASE CHECK OUR CALENDAR FOR OTHER EVENTS.

Join us for a live music performance by singer, song writer, Chris Waltz & Tina Digesti at Central Library. Chris Waltz and Tina  Digesti will perform a popular and eclectic blend of traditional Celtic music from Ireland and Scotland performed on voice, guitar, fiddle, Irish flute, Irish tin whistle, and the Celtic Low whistle featuring songs sung in Irish/Gaelic and English.The performance will be on our Art & Music 5th floor from 4 to 5 pm.

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Peace Day Commemoration featuring Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto @North

Join us for this intergenerational Peace Day Commemoration.

We will listen to beautiful koto music by Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto, and hear short reading in honor of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who lived through the bombing of Hiroshima, but died years later from the effects of the atomic bomb. She was made famous for folding 1,000 origami cranes in the hopes that her wish to survive would be granted.

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