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Contact: James Findley
Librarian
Berkeley Public Library
10-981-6142

Richard Schwartz, noted local author and scholar, will give an illustrated talk on the hidden Indian Life in Berkeley and the evidence surrounding it.  He will describe how the discovery and protection of artifacts and history combine as a powerful tool to begin to understand the extent Native Americans lived within what became the city of Berkeley.  He will demonstrate how a culture can be learned or lost by the efforts and actions of current residents.  This event will be held on Saturday May 28, 2016 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room of the Central Library located at 2090 Kittredge Street in Berkeley, CA.

For questions regarding this program, call 510-981-6148.

This free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org.

The Central Library is located at 2090 Kittredge Street and is open Monday, 12:00noon - 8:00pm, Tuesday, 10:00am - 8:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00am - 6:00pm, and Sunday from 1:00pm - 5:00pm.

Wheelchair accessible. For questions, to request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for this event, please call (510) 981-6195 (voice) or (510) 548-1240 (TTY); at least five working days will help ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs. Visit the library’s website: www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

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Contact: Jack Baur
Supervising Librarian
Berkeley Public Library, North Branch
510-981-6050
jbaur@ci.berkeley.cs.us
 

Charlie Jane Anders, Author of All The Birds in the Sky
at Berkeley Public Library’s North Branch

Berkeley, CA. April 19, 2016 –Charlie Jane Anders, Editor-in-Chief of the popular science and pop culture website io9.com, and a Hugo Award winning author, has written All the Birds in the Sky, a kaleidoscopic, captivating, and whimsical story about the end of the world. A Bay Area resident, Anders shares her thrilling new Sci-Fi/Fantasy mash-up novel at North Branch on Wednesday, April 20, from 7:00 – 8:30pm.

Charlie Jane Anders reads from All the Birds in the Sky and will engage the audience in a no-holds-barred conversation about the themes and ideas in her book. She will be available to sign books after the event. (No copies of the book will be available for purchase on-site, so please purchase your book beforehand.) For questions about this free reading, please call the North Branch at 510-981-6250.

With its imaginative mash-up of science and magic full of wisdom about life in the 21st Century, and shot through with humor and hope All the Birds in the Sky will appeal to any reader of speculative fiction.

Michael Chabon raved “The very short list of novels that dare to traffic as freely in the uncanny and wondrous as in big ideas – I think of masterpieces like The Lathe of Heaven, Cloud Atlas, and Little, Big – has just been extended by one.”

This free event is made possible by a generous gift from the Pace Trust, in support of the North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library.

The North Branch Library is located at 1170 The Alameda, Berkeley CA 94707, and is open: Monday, 10:00am-6:00pm, Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00am-8:00pm, Thursday 12pm -8:00pm, and Friday and Saturday, 10:00am-6:00pm. For more information about this program call 510-981-6250.
Wheelchair accessible. For questions, to request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for this event, please call (510) 981-6195 (voice) or (510) 548-1240 (TTY); at least five working days will help ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs. Visit the library’s website: www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.          

                                        
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Contact: Shani Leonards
Supervising Librarian
Berkeley Public Library
510-981-6280

 
Thai Cultural Council Dancers Perform @Claremont

Berkeley, California.  May 2, 2016 –May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The Berkeley Public Library invites you to a special dance performance by the master and student artists of the Thai Cultural Council. On Saturday, May 21, at 3:00pm the artists of the Thai Cultural Council (TCC) will share present traditional and folk Thai dances with the musical accompaniment of TCC’s classical band at the Claremont Branch Library. This program is part of the Berkeley Public Library’s celebration and TCC's initiative to support positive cultural exchange between audiences in the United States. Call the Claremont Branch at 510-981-6280 for more information

The Thai Cultural Council (TCC) of Berkeley’s mission is to instill pride in Thai culture among Thai-American youth, to build self-confidence, camaraderie and leadership skills through performance and to introduce Thai performing arts and music to audiences in California. TCC is located at Wat Mongkolratanaram Thai Buddhist Temple in South Berkeley. It offers music and dance lessons on weekends and more intensive classes during summer sessions. TCC instructors are volunteers who are either permanently settled in the Bay Area or visiting year-long teaching fellows from the Rajabhat Institute at Ban Somdej Chao Phraya in Bangkok. For more information about TCC visit www.tccberkeley.com

This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.

The Claremont Branch is located at 2940 Benvenue @ Ashby, Berkeley CA 94705, and is open: Monday, 10:00am-6:00pm, Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00am-8:00pm, Thursday 12 noon-8:00pm, and Friday and Saturday, 10:00am-6:00pm

Wheelchair accessible. For questions, to request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for this event, please call (510) 981-6195 (voice) or (510) 548-1240 (TTY); at least five working days will help ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs. Visit the library’s website: https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/

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