Upcoming events

  • Fri. November 6, Silences and Salutations: Seven One Act Plays. A festival of short plays by some of the most innovative playwrights of the 20th Century: Gertrude Stein, Eugène Ionesco, Maria Irene Fornes, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Harold Pinter. Artistic Director: Peter Glazer. Presented in three programs of three plays each, Thursdays thru Sundays, November 6-22, 2009. Save 50% when you order the General Admission one-acts series package.
  • Wed. September 23, Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series. Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero offers a powerful critique of the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in a series of paintings and drawings recently donated to the Berkeley Art Museum.
  • Wed. September 23, Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm's Reach. Recording New York’s downtown art world or the emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down a vertical mountain face or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own family life, photographer Ari Marcopoulos unerringly captures the zeitgeist. This mid-career survey shows the intimate and compelling work of a key documentarian of contemporary culture.
  • Tue. October 13, Development of Written Language in the Ancient Near East. This exhibit explores the development of writing systems in the Ancient Near East beginning with Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Proto-Sinaitic through Medieval Islamic empire.
  • Mon. October 26, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Senior Portraits! Hosted by Blue and Gold Yearbook. Graduating? Want to be in Berkeley's 2010 yearbook? Don't forget to take your senior portrait! Sign up for your senior portrait session today @ http://yearbook.berkeley.edu! Senior portrait sessions will begin on October 26 at 9:00 am and end November 24 at 5:30 pm. Sittings start at only $5 and will be held at the Cal Student Store [First Floor, MLK Student Union – near...
  • Sat. October 3, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 99 Bottles of Beer: Global Brewing Traditions, 2500 BC - the Present. Drawing from a collection of over a thousand beer-related items, this exhibit of about 130 items focuses on the material aspects of beer production and consumption: objects for brewing, storing, transporting, serving, and drinking. This rich display reveals the striking unities and diversities of human cultures as they come together to celebrate the fruit of the grain.
  • Thu. August 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Origin of Species", The Bancroft Library has mounted an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, images, scientific specimens, and other materials, drawing on the collections of the campus's libraries and museums.
  • Mon. November 23, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Rule of Law: Latin America: Irving G. Tragen, Boalt Hall '45. Mr. Tragen served as a career Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. to many Latin American countries; and rose to the Ambassadorial Rank. Subsequently, he served for more than a decade with the Organization of American States as the director of their drug prevention and interdiction program, the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission. Irving G. Tragen.
  • Tue. September 22, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Public Service Leadership Boot Camp. Interested in becoming an effective leader, organizer, or candidate in your community? This course is for people who hear a call to service and seek a roadmap to transform dreams into actions through social networks, nonprofits, and political campaigns. Taught by author and activist Christine Pelosi, the boot camp course is made up of short, concentrated lessons that hone your... Christine Pelosi.
  • Wed. November 4, 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. Peace Corps Speaker Panel. Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Speaker Panel Presentation Trivia session: Giveaway prizes on your participation in trivia quizzes on Peace Corps and World Affairs & Geography Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Speaker Panel Presentation: This event is a great opportunity for anyone interested in community development, foreign affairs, international travel,... Daniel Marlay, Peace Corps Country: Suriname '01-'03. Kern Lewis, Peace Corps Country: Ukraine '97-'99. Mike & Pat Hayes, Peace Corps Country: Ecuador '71-'75. Joe Hayes, Peace Corps Country: Bolivia '06-'08. Brian Halaburka, Peace Corps Country: Namibia '04-'06. Thomas Henry, Peace Corps Country: Kenya '99-'02. Erica Ivans, Peace Corps Country: Kazakhstan '02-'04. Nick Bosustow, Peace Corps Country: Guatemala '99-'01 & Suriname '04-'05.

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