Events in Berkeley

KPFA Radio presents CALVIN TRILLIN Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of His Funny Stuff Hosted by Richard Wolinsky

Date of the Event: 
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm

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KPFA Radio presents
CALVIN TRILLIN
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of His Funny Stuff
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
September 19, 7:30 PM
The Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: T - 800-838-3006
or Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL Bookstore ($15 door, $7 HC members), SF: Modern Times
KPFA Benefit

This Event Is Sold Out

Palestinian Women's Voices featuring MK Hanin Zoabi and Areej Ja'fari

Date of the Event: 
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Palestinian Women's Voices featuring MK Hanin Zoabi and Areej Ja'fari

First Congregational Church of Berkeley - November 2nd - 7pm
2345 Channing Way @ Dana
Tickets: $15, $10 for low-income and students, no one turned away for lack of funds. Buy tickets at www.mecaforpeace.org, 510-548-0542 or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006

$15 tickets also available at bookstores: (east bay) Books Inc., Diesel, Moe's Books, Pegasus/Solano, Pegasus/Shattuck, Walden Pond (SF) Modern TimesThis is a benefit for MECA's Maia Project: Bringing Clean Water to the Children of Palestine.The event is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpreted.For info events@mecaforpeace.org or 510-548-0542.
Co-sponsored by KPFA!

ROBERT AND DAYNA BAER "The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story"

Date of the Event: 
Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm

ROBERT BAER+ DAYNA BAER  
“The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story”

Hosted by Aimee Allison

Monday, March 21, 7:30
First Congregational Church, Sanctuary
2345 Channing Way (at Dana), Berkeley

Widely known inside the C.I.A. as the best operative working the Middle East (portrayed by George Clooney in the film Syriana), Baer fell in love with a UC Berkeley graduate who’d become a CIA shooter. This is their true story – “A revealing firsthand account of international espionage and romance inside the CIA” – Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side

KPFA BENEFIT

14th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award

Date of the Event: 
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

14th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award

Consumer Advocate & Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren

ON Main Street First: Fixing Broken Markets and Rebuilding the Middle Class

Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00)

Pauley Ballroom

Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center, UC Berkeley

Admission Free Tickets required, available only in lobby from 5 pm on.

Wheelchair accessible. To request other disability-related accommodations and for further information: write savio@sonic.net or go to www.savio.org.

17th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: NEW STRATEGIES FOR CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS. NOVEMBER 12, 2013, 8:00 pm, Doors open: 6:30 pm Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley Campus. ADMISSION FREE.

Date of the Event: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 6:30pm - 10:00pm

 

17th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture:

NEW STRATEGIES FOR CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS.

NOVEMBER 12, 2013, 8:00 pm, Doors open: 6:30 pm 

Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley Campus.

ADMISSION FREE

 

 with: Michael Brune, Executive Director., SIERRA CLUB; Phil Radford, Exec. Dir. GREENPEACE;  May Boeve, Exec. Dir. and Co-founder,  350.org; Sharon Lungo, Co-Director, the RUCKUS SOCIETY; and Gopal Dayaneni, MOVEMENT GENERATION/Justice and Ecology Project  

Also: presentation of the Mario Savio Young Activist Award
Presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), a spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement (1964), and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified, to promote the ideals and values he struggled to advance throughout his life, and to recognize and encourage young activists striving to build a more humane and just society.
Event contact: savio@sonic.net
co-sponsored by KPFA

 

2012 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. March 8 to 18.

Date of the Event: 
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:00am - Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 10:00pm

2012 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

"The Center For Asian American Media (CAAM) is proud to present the 30th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)! The largest festival of it’s kind runs in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose from March 8-18 2012. The Festival’s 30th anniversary program celebrates the past, present, and future – not only honoring pioneers in Asian and Asian American media-making, but also new directions in digital and interactive media, sound and youth culture, culinary arts and gaming.

SFIAAFF will once again feature a dynamic and forward-looking selection of the best in new Asian and Asian American cinema. This year’s program boasts a line-up including a Hawai’ian love story and global warming documentary, indie horror flicks and a live-audience participation Filipino musical, films remembering the Japan Tsunami & Earthquake, and programs celebrating Asian American media pioneers. In other words, there’s something for everyone in this year’s 30th SFIAAFF!

Oh, and SFIAAFF includes more than just films!

This year, our program expands to include interactive salons underscoring the culinary, music, and gaming worlds, performative cinema events, and of course some of the most raucous parties in the Bay.
Film screenings, filmmaker spotlights, and interactive events take place at the Castro Theatre, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, San Francisco Film Society/New People Cinema in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, and the Camera 3 Cinemas in San Jose.  Tickets go on sale beginning Thursday, February 9 for CAAM members and Monday, February 13 for the general public.
For more information or tickets please visit:  http://festival.caamedia.org/30/ "
2012 SFIAAFF goes from March 8-18 in the SF Bay Area,
and selections include: 

PAPA MAU: THE WAY FINDER
AMONG B-BOYS, THE FRONT LINE,
WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK, NO LOOK PASS,
MR. CAO GOES TO WASHINGTON
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND (TE HENUA E NNOHO),
DELHI IN A DAY, TIBET IN SONG,
and MUCH MORE...

Listen to "APEX EXPRESS" (Thursdays 7pm Pacific Time)
and KPFA API SPECIALS (annually in May, June, and October)
for Special REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS & GIVEAWAYS.

www.ApexExpress.org


KPFA Sponsored Event

5th Annual SF Latino Film Festival - Sept. 12-27 - Various Venues - SF/Berkeley/Oakland/San Jose

Date of the Event: 
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 7:00pm - Friday, September 27, 2013 - 10:00pm

Cine+Mas presents the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, September 12-27 in theatres and cultural centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, screening award winning and critically acclaimed documentary and feature films from Latin America, South America and the USA.

For more information visit: sflatinofilmfestival.org

Co-sponsored by KPFA.

7th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival-Saturday, June 5-Noon to 9 pm-Telegraph Avenue

Date of the Event: 
Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 12:00pm - 9:00pm

The 7th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival will take place at various venues on and around Telegraph Avenue on Saturday, June 5 from Noon to 9 pm.  Free!  Co-Sponsored by KPFA

7th Annual Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp

Date of the Event: 
Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 7:30am - 5:00pm

7th Annual Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp
Saturday, August 14, 2010
7:30 am-5 pm
UC Berkeley Campus, Zellerbach Hall, Sproul Plaza and other nearby campus buildings

8th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival

Date of the Event: 
Saturday, June 4, 2011 - 12:00pm - 9:00pm

8th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival

Saturday, June 4, Noon - 9 pm 

Bay Area's finest world music artists converge on Telegraph Ave, for free continuous music, mainly in cafes, as well as the 1-6 pm concert at People's Park.

Festival Epicenter is Telegraph Ave at Haste Street. With music roots including Cuban, Sufi, Celtic, Greek, Russian Mali blues, Brazillian Forró, belly dance, gamelan, even jazz funk + a crafts bazaar, there’s something for everyone!

Details at www.berkeleyworldmusic.org

 

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