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WEAD presents: Minoosh (Raheleh) Zomorodinia “Journey to a Mysterious Truth”

June 3, 2013 in Art & Music Event, Central Branch, Exhibit, Talk by LibraryNews | Permalink

Press Release
Contact: Michele McKenzie — phone: 510-981-6240

 

For Immediate Release
For an exhibit June 3rd – August 4th
Artist talk and reception Sunday, June 16th

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
and ARTIST TALK

WEAD presents: Minoosh (Raheleh) Zomorodinia
“Journey to a Mysterious Truth”

 

Women Environmental Artist Directory (WEAD) board member Minoosh (Raheleh) Zomorodinia exhibits a series of photographs entitled Journey to a Mysterious Truth in Berkeley Public Library’s Central Catalog Lobby, 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck, downtown Berkeley, from June 3rd through August 4th.  Zomorondinia’s haunting and evocative images explore the relationship between the self and its environment. She uses the human form as a metaphor for our presence in physical spaces, expressing our unconscious passages through layers of mysterious truths.

Access to the exhibit is available during the library’s open hours: Monday 12 – 8; Tuesday 10- 8; Wednesday – Saturday, 10 – 6; Sunday 1 – 5.

In conjunction with this exhibition, Zomorodinia will present a slide lecture on Environmental Art in Iran and screen of examples of her video art.   This FREE artist’s talk and reception takes place on Sunday, June 16th at 2PM in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room of the Central Library.

Minoosh (Raheleh) Zomorodinia is an Iranian photographer and artist based in the Bay Area. She earned a BA in photography and a MA in graphic design from the Art and Architecture University in Tehran, Iran, and is currently studying Multimedia at Berkeley City College.  Zomorodinia taught photography in Iran and has been a member of the Iranian environmental artists group “Open Five” from 2004 to present. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Most recently in the U.S., her work was included the Nevada Art Museum’s exhibition, The Altered Landscape.

Wheelchair accessible.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org).  For more information, call 510-981-6100 or connect  www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org

 

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Music & Literary Event “A Celebration of Irish Song, Literature & Poetry”

May 30, 2013 in Art & Music Event, Claremont Branch, Reading Event by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Shani Leonards, 510-981-6285

For Immediate Release
May 29, 2013

Music & Literary Event
“A Celebration of Irish Song, Literature & Poetry”
Thursday, June 13th at 6:30 pm– Claremont Branch Library

 

Join us on Thursday, June 13th at 6:30 p.m. at the Claremont Branch Library for a cultural evening featuring award-winning  jazz singer and songwriter Melanie O’Reilly. Melanie will team up with top Bay Area jazz pianist Frank Martin to perform music inspired by the writings of James Joyce , Sean O Riordain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill  & other Irish greats, interwoven with literature & poetry readings.

One of Ireland’s foremost jazz singers, Melanie performs her own unique style of Celtic Jazz, which has been described as “A gorgeous sound…Celtic Cadence with a jazz sensibility.” Her music has been featured in Frontline and PBS documentaries. She is also host of Award winning radio show “Jazz on the Bay” for the Irish National Broadcasting station, RTE. Frank Martin works as an arranger, conductor and keyboardist and has performed and recorded with a variety of jazz and popular stars including Sting, Stevie Wonder, Bobbi McFerrin and James Taylor.

Wheelchair accessible. To request a sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, materials in large print or Braille, or other accommodations for these events, please call 510 981-6195 (voice) or 510 548-1240 (TTY) At least three working days notice will ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org)

The Claremont Library, 2940 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley CA 94705, is open Monday and Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 12p.m.-8 p.m.., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., For questions and accessibility information, call 510-981-6195, TDD 510-548-1240, http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

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Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen: Indra’s Net Theater Company discussion at Berkeley Public Library

May 8, 2013 in Art & Music Event, Central Branch, Reading Event, Talk by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact:  Debbie Carton
510-981-6139

 

Immediate Release
May 8, 2013
For an event occurring Tuesday, May 14, 2013

 

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen:
Indra’s Net Theater Company discussion at Berkeley Public Library


Berkeley Public Library welcomes our town’s new theater company.  Indra’s Net Theater focuses on plays about science and its philosophical and ethical implications.  Their first production is Michael Frayn’s Tony award-winning Copenhagen. On Tuesday, May 14, director Bruce Coughran will join us to discuss the play and the production, in a free program at 6:30 p.m. in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room. Members from the Berkeley Public Library’s Playreaders group will read several scenes aloud.

In 1941, Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his German protégé Werner Heisenberg met in occupied Denmark.  Heisenberg was working on his country’s project to explore nuclear fission.  Through this tense meeting of old friends, the play explores the vagaries of human communication.  What can be known?  And what will always be uncertain?

COPENHAGEN is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Indra’s Net Theater is a fiscally sponsored project of fractured atlas.  For more information about Copenhagen and Indra’s Net Theater, visit www.indrasnettheater.com.

This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org).  For more information, call 510-981-6139 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

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Max Frisch and The Arsonists: Aurora Theatre Company discussion at Berkeley Public Library

March 25, 2013 in Art & Music Event, Uncategorized by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Debbie Carton
510-981-6139

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For an event occurring Monday, April 15, 2013

 

Max Frisch and The Arsonists:
Aurora Theatre Company discussion at Berkeley Public Library

 

The Berkeley Public Library welcomes back Aurora Theatre Company for “Max Frisch and Remembering to Be A Citizen”, on Monday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck, in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room.

Join Michael Mansfield (Education Director, Aurora Theatre Company and Faculty Lecturer, UC Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) for an interactive discussion celebrating Swiss playwright Max Frisch and his 1958 classic The Arsonists. Timeless topics of politics, silence, evil, class warfare, and the inability to act invite us to adjust our moral compass and conscience, whether it’s 1948 during the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, 1953 in a radio-play called Mr. Biedermann and the Arsonists, 1958 in a play called The Arsonists, or 2013 as we reflect on our world and our lives today. An evening to celebrate words, this free program is presented in conjunction with Aurora Theatre Company’s freshly mounted production of Bay Area Writer-Director Mark Jackson’s The Arsonists in a rousing translation by Alistair Beaton.

For more information about The Arsonists at Aurora Theatre Company, visit the website: www.auroratheatre.org.

This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org). For more information, call 510-981-6139 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

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Chanticleer Youth Choir at Berkeley Public Library

March 19, 2013 in Art & Music Event by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Debbie Carton (Ph: 510-981-6139)

For immediate release
March 18, 2013


Chanticleer Youth Choir at Berkeley Public Library


Berkeley Public Library is proud to welcome back Chanticleer’s Louis A. Botto Youth Choir.  Singers aged 14-20 will present a free concert on Saturday, April 20 at 2:00 P.M. at the Central Library, 2090 Kittredge (at Shattuck), on the fifth floor in the Art & Music department.

The Grammy-winning San Francisco-based group Chanticleer provides high-level, small ensemble training for the Bay Area’s top young singers and offers community service through free performances. The youth outreach choir is named for Chanticleer’s founder, Louis A. Botto.  In “Ren and Blue: a program of Renaissance and Jazz”, you’ll hear a juxtaposition of early Renaissance masters (Leonel Power, Johannes Ockeghem, John Dowland, and Thomas Morley) with some Jazz hits (When I Fall in Love, Blue Skies, Frankie and Johnny, and Chili con Carne).

This free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.  For further information, call 510-981-6139.  For accessibility information, call 510-981-6107 TTY, 510-548-1240, http://berkeleypubliclibrary.org

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Cypress String Quartet at Berkeley Public Library

March 14, 2013 in Art & Music Event by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Debbie Carton
510-981-6139

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For an event occurring Thursday, April 11, 2013

 

Cypress String Quartet at Berkeley Public Library

 

The Berkeley Public Library welcomes the San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet for a lecture/demonstration of their “Call and Response” program on Thursday, April 11 at 12:15 pm. “Call & Response” presents music as a dynamic and ongoing process of inspiration by bringing together masterworks from the past and a new work written by a living composer specifically for this project. In addition to playing, the Cypress String Quartet will discuss the relationship between music and poetry, and the creation of Call & Response 2013.

Come hear portions of Dvorak’s The Cypresses, Schubert’s 13th “Rosamunde” Quartet, and music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon. Higdon’s new piece, which will be performed on April 19th, is based on the poetry of former American Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin and carries the title, “In the Shadow of Sirius.” The Cypress String Quartet will present the pieces in their entirety in a concert on April 19th, 2013 at 8 p.m. in Herbst Theatre.

Known for its elegant performances, the Cypress String Quartet (Cecily Ward, violin; Tom Stone, violin; Ethan Filner, viola; and Jennifer Kloetzel, cello) has been praised by Gramophone for “artistry of uncommon insight and cohesion”. Read more about them and the upcoming concert at www.cypressquartet.com.

The program takes place at the Central Berkeley Public Library, 5th Floor, 2090 Kittredge Street, which is wheelchair accessible. This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org). For more information, call 510-981-6139 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

 

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Afro-Peruvian Dance at the Library

March 14, 2013 in Art & Music Event by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Debbie Carton
510-981-6139

Immediate Release
For an event occurring Saturday, April 6, 2013

 

Afro-Peruvian Dance at the Library

 

Celebrate National Dance Month at the Berkeley Public Library with a free dance performance by Cunamacue on Saturday, April 6, at 3 pm. The program takes place at the Central Berkeley Public Library, 5th Floor, 2090 Kittredge Street, which is wheelchair accessible.

Local dance troupe Cunamacue combines Afro-Peruvian movement vocabulary, dances of the African diaspora and modern dance aesthetics. Their work communicates themes universal to the human experience.

This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org). For more information, call 510-981-6139 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

 

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Oakland Renaissance Jazz Series The Photography of Kamau Amen-Ra, Edward Miller, Tumani Onabiyi and Wanda Sabir

February 19, 2013 in Art & Music Event, Exhibit by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Michele McKenzie — phone: 510-981-6240

For Immediate Release
For an exhibit February 11th – May11th
Artist reception and jazz concert March 2nd

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
& JAZZ CONCERT

Oakland Renaissance Jazz Series
The Photography of Kamau Amen-Ra, Edward Miller,
Tumani Onabiyi and Wanda Sabir

 

A collection of Oakland based photographers celebrate the art and artistry of jazz musicians in the Bay Area with an exhibition in Berkeley Public Library’s Central Catalog Lobby, 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck, downtown Berkeley, from February 11th through May 11th.  The exhibition is curated by Kamau Amen-Ra and it features the work of Wanda Sabir, Edward Miller and Tumani Onabiyi.  This series of jazz photography captures performances held in a variety of Bay Area venues including the East Side Cultural Center and the 57th Street Gallery in Oakland.  This group of artists have been documenting the rich history of jazz performance in the Bay Area for over a quarter of a century.  Access to the exhibit is available during the library’s open hours: Monday 12 – 8; Tuesday 10- 8; Wednesday – Saturday, 10 – 6; Sunday 1 – 5.

The artist reception features a performance by TVC, a jazz string trio comprised of local musicians Kash Killion on cello, with Sandy Poindexter and Jean “Tarika” Lewis on violin.  This FREE jazz concert and artist reception takes place on Saturday, March 2nd at 2PM in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room in the Central Library.  The exhibiting photographers will be available to discuss their work immediately following the concert at 3:00 pm.

Wheelchair accessible.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.  For more information, call 510-981-6100 or connect  www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org


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Opera in the Library

January 15, 2013 in Art & Music Event by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact:  Debbie Carton
510-981-6139

Immediate Release
For an event occurring Thursday, January 24, 2013

 

OPERA IN THE LIBRARY


Berkeley Public Library presents a free noontime lecture/concert featuring West Edge Opera on Thursday, January 24, at 12:15 pm.  General Director Mark Streshinsky introduces the company’s upcoming production, L’Incoronazione  di Poppea.  From the harpsichord, conductor Gilbert Martinez, Artistic Director of MusicSources, will accompany cast members in selected arias.

Monteverdi’s opera has been praised for its originality, melody and the human attributes of its characters.  Poppea was first performed in Venice during the 1642-1643 carnival season and established the composer as the leading musical dramatist of his time.  The opera recounts how Poppea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nero, achieves her ambition to be crowned empress. The program takes place at the Central Berkeley Public Library, 5th Floor, 2090 Kittredge Street, which is wheelchair accessible.  This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org). For more information, call 510-981-6139 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

West Edge Opera’s production of L’Incoronazione di Poppea opens February 1st at the Performing Arts Theater at El Cerrito High School.  Read more about the show at www.westedgeopera.org.

Poppea Flyer

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SF Shakespeare presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Central Library

December 10, 2012 in Art & Music Event, Uncategorized by LibraryNews | Permalink

For immediate release
December 5, 2012

Contact: Debbie Carton (Ph: 510-981-6139)

 

SF Shakespeare presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
at Central Library

 

Berkeley Public Library welcomes the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival as they present the touring company’s presentation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday, January 26, 2013, 2 p. m. at the Central Library, 2090 Kittredge (at Shattuck). The free performance will take place in the library’s third floor Community Meeting Room.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the most popular of Shakespeare’s comedies.  With impetuous lovers, quarreling fairies and the sheer slapstick energy of the Mechanicals’ play within a play, there’s something for everyone.  The 55 minute touring production presents a cast of professional actors in costume, with set, props, and recorded music.  After the play, the cast will meet with the audience for a question and answer session.

For questions regarding this program, call 510-981-6139.  This program is sponsored by Friends of the Berkeley Public Library (www.berkeley.library/friends.org).  For accessibility information, call 510-981-6107, TTY (510) 528-1240, http://berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

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