Movies
Bang Data Band Performs at the Freight and Salvage
Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBased in Oakland, California - Bang Data is like California itself - built on Latin traditions, but deeply hybrid in expression. This beloved SF Bay Area based band - led by singer/emcee Deuce Eclipse who’s well known by hip-hop fans as an accompanying voice to the legendary Zion I, and producer/instrumentalist Caipo who has become…
BAMPFA Presents: Black Life – Levi Maxwell
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesLevi Maxwell, a Bay Area–born food justice and youth advocate, explores the impact of African material culture and agrarian knowledge on colonial economies throughout the transatlantic world, and discusses the effect of clothing from local populations along the West and Central African coast on Western cultural identity. For more information click here
Aurora Theatre Presents: Bull in a China Shop
The Aurora Theatre 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFierce feminist Mary Woolley becomes the president of Mount Holyoke College in 1901, on a crusade to stop training pious wives and start giving women a real education. The students respond, even starting a fan club for Woolley’s longterm romance with teacher Jeannette Marks. But leading a revolution from inside an institution isn’t easy, and neither is…
Films at The Freight: Buena Vista Social Club
Berkeley, CA, United StatesTuesday, August 27th Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm $7 ADV / $9 DOOR (plus fees) For more information click here
Aurora Theatre Presents: Ike Holter’s EXIT STRATEGY on Friday 8/30
The Aurora Theatre 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFive Chicago public school teachers, their frazzled vice-principal and a defiant but motivated student take on a failing school system in Ike Holter's sensational new play, Exit Strategy. Fierce, funny, and charged with anger, the sharply written play follows the motley crew as they band together to save the demolition of their school and regain…
Aurora Theatre Presents: Bull in a China Shop
The Aurora Theatre 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFierce feminist Mary Woolley becomes the president of Mount Holyoke College in 1901, on a crusade to stop training pious wives and start giving women a real education. The students respond, even starting a fan club for Woolley’s longterm romance with teacher Jeannette Marks. But leading a revolution from inside an institution isn’t easy, and neither is…
BAMPFA Presents: This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
BAMPFA Outdoor Screen Addison and Oxford, Berkeley, CA, United States7pm Screening: This Ain’t No Mouse Music! “In This Ain’t No Mouse Music!, their vivid portrait of an obsessive sonic sleuth, Simon and Gosling take a hip-shaking stroll from New Orleans to Appalachia and right into the very DNA of rock ’n’ roll. For more info Click here
Freight & Salvage Presents: Superfest Disability Film Festival
Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesStill from Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, 2015 Best of Festival Award Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in a small Los Angeles showcase in 1970, it has become an eagerly anticipated international event—co-produced by San Francisco's LightHouse for the Blind…
Berkeley Live Presents: Berkeley Symphony on The Plaza
Downtown Berkeley Plaza Berkeley, CA, United StatesLocation: Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza off Shattuck Ave. (between Center Street and Allston Way) Berkeley Symphony’s brand-new Music Director Joseph Young makes his first official community appearance for a live, open air performance at Berkeley Symphony Live! On the Plaza. Displaying its adventurous, award-winning programming and commitment to new music, selected musicians from the Orchestra…
Aurora Presents: The Children by Lucy Kirkwood | Directed by Barbara Damashek
The Aurora Theatre 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA long-married couple live in a ramshackle cottage near the edge of a nuclear disaster that recalls the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe. Intruding into their somewhat eccentric existence comes Rose, a former co-worker at the power station whose appearance after 30 years is a mystery that will inspire both laughter and an increasing sense of menace. But Rose…