Come shake it up with us!
Join this FREE family creative dance class with Luna Dance & Creativity for all ages and spark your weekends with joyful movement!
Limited to 30 participants, RSVP required at https://lunadancecreativity.org/product/pop-up-family-dance-2023-24/
Berkeley Public Library, Central
4th Floor, Story Room
2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704
ANNOUNCEMENT: Noel Jewkes will not be performing on Saturday.
Join us for a jazz performance by the Michael Marcus Quartet featuring
Michael Marcus - Woodwinds
Matt Clark - Piano
Heshima Mark Williams - Bass
Al Marshall - Drums
Michael Marcus is an American Jazz multi-woodwind player - saxophones, clarinets, flutes, taragatos and octavin.
He is also a composer and arranger.
This concert is sponsored by the Jazz Foundation of America.
Ballet & Books is a non-profit organization of UC Berkeley students who mentor children ages 6-9 in literacy and dance, working to close the literacy gap and connect with the community.
Mentoring sessions start February 17 at the Berkeley Public Library!
Central, 3rd Floor Community Meeting Room, 2090 Kittredge St.
Every Saturday 2/17-4/20, 10am-12pm (Except for 3/23 and 3/30)
Mbira Music of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's beautiful mbira music has been used for healing, personal mediation, celebrations, and communication with the ancestors of all humankind for over 1,000 years. It can be mellow and meditative or lively and energetic.
Bay Area based Zimbabwean musician 'Salani' Wamkanganise naGaadza joins Berkeley native Erica Azim for a mbira presentation that will include a performance, discussion and a short period of instruction at the end for those who want to try playing the mbira instrument.
Please join us at the THPS Branch for a musical story time series with the Berkeley Public Library's Story Time Band. These events will take place on Tuesdays, 1/9 and 1/16 at 10:30 a.m. Each session will feature live music, movement activities, and read-aloud stories for children ages 2-7. See you there!
Band Bio
Tentative Schedule:
Mystery room:
2:00pm Bilingual Mandarin Storytime w/ Tianxin (Aries) Wang & Kato
2:30pm Cal Fei Tian Dancers
3:00pm Cal VSA Lion Dancers
3:30pm Leung’s White Crane Lion Dancers
4:00pm SF Guzheng Music Society
Historic lobby next to mystery room:
2-3:30pm Paper lantern and dragon crafts
4:00pm Polymer Clay Food craft w/ Eugenia Yoh
Join us for an evening of poetry and performances as we announce our first-ever Berkeley Youth Poet Laureate and Vice Youth Poet Laureate! Refreshments will be provided.
Join us for a very special Library event as we celebrate the release of BLACK PUNK NOW, an anthology co-edited by punk rock authors James Spooner and Chris L. Terry. Contributors to the collection include critic Hanif Abdurraqib and cartoonist Raeghan Buchanan, conversations with Brontez Purnell, and a roundtable of all femme festival organizers.