Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan OFFSITE In conversation on Women, Rituals, Ecology in India.
2019-02-11 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan OFFSITE

In conversation on Women, Rituals, Ecology in India.

Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author. Currently based in Delhi, she has authored more than twenty books, including Who Really Feeds the World? Water Wars, and Biopiracy. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin) and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as evidenced by her interview in the book Vedic Ecology. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
Vijaya Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She writes about Hinduism, gender, ritual, ecology and the commons. Recently her work has centered around spiritual autobiographies of place, especially around immigration and motherhood. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion and in environmental movements in the United States. She is the author of Feeding a Thousand Souls which documents the history of the tradition of the kolam. Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kōlam, a ritual design made of rice flour, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions––beauty, history, gender, literature, religion, anthropology, mathematics, and ecology.
In cooperation with KPFA. Advance tickets ($12) available at Mrs. Dalloways, through brownpapertickets.com, or (800) 838-3006. $15 at the door.

EXHIBITION On Screen 2018/19 Season: Young Picasso
2019-02-13 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
EXHIBITION On Screen 2018/19 Season: Young Picasso

Wed, Feb 13 1 & 7pm & Wed, Mar 20 4pm
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Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have dealt with these later years – the art, the affairs and the wide circle of friends. But where did this all begin? What made Picasso in the first place? Too long ignored, it is time to look at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements.
Three cities play a key role: Malaga, Barcelona and Paris. Young Picasso visits each and explores their influence on Picasso, focusing on specific artworks from these early years. The film thus explains how this young artist acquired his craft. Looking carefully at two key early periods – the so-called Blue Period and Rose Period – the film takes us all the way to 1907 and the creation of a critical painting in the history of art – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. It was a painting that shocked the art world but changed it irrevocably. Picasso was only 25 years old. Working closely with all three Picasso Museums in Malaga, Barcelona and Paris this film explains how he rose to great heights.

Horn From The Heart The Paul Butterfield Story
2019-02-16 13:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Horn From The Heart The Paul Butterfield Story

ADDED SHOW! Sat, Feb 16 1pm
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“Paul was an incredible creative spirit and always kept stretching. As deep as he would go into the roots, he was always pushing the envelope of what blues can be.” – Bonnie Raitt
Paul learned the blues from the original black masters performing nightly in his own back yard. Muddy Waters was Paul’s mentor and lifelong friend, happy to share his wisdom and expertise with such a gifted young acolyte.
The interracial Paul Butterfield Blues Band, featuring the twin guitar sound of Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, the rhythm section of Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold and the keyboards of Mark Naftalin, added a rock edge to the Chicago blues, bringing an authenticity to its sound that struck a chord with the vast white rock audience and rejuvenated worldwide interest in the blues. The band’s first LP, released in 1965, was named “#11 Blues Album of All Time” by Downbeat.
Through his music and words, along with first‐hand accounts of his family, his band mates and those closest to him, Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story tells the complex story of a man many call the greatest blues harmonica player of all time.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Paul Butterfield is one of a handful of musicians inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Blues Halls of Fame, alongside other legendary artists including B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Billie Holiday and Eric Clapton.

Angie Thomas in Conversation with MK Asante OFFSITE discussing her new novel On the Come Up, an ode to hip hop.
2019-02-18 15:00 - 17:00
Angie Thomas in Conversation with MK Asante OFFSITE

discussing her new novel On the Come Up, an ode to hip hop. The ticketed event is co-sponsored by Oakland Unified School District Library Services and Mrs. Dalloway’s. Tickets and further information available through Eventbrite. Your $25 purchase includes a ticket and a copy of On the Come Up, available for pickup at the event.

Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up, an ode to hip-hop, is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn’t always free.
A former teen rapper, Angie Thomas holds a BFA in creative writing from Bellhaven University. Her debut novel, The Hate U Give, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Fox 2000 starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr. She was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi.
MK Asante, award-winning writer, filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and distinguished professor, is the author of It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation and Buck: A Memoir, currently being adapted into a major motion picture.
For more information about Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Library Services, visit them here.
Street parking and on-campus parking are avaible at the 45th Street entrance. Doors open at 2:30pm, show starts at 3pm. Please arrive early to find parking and a good seat.

Event address:

Oakland Technical High School Auditorium
300-340 42nd St

Oakland, CA 94609

Great Art On Screen: Van Gogh - Between the Wheat and the Sky
2019-02-19 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Great Art On Screen: Van Gogh – Between the Wheat and the Sky

Tue, Feb 19 1 & 7pm
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A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kroller-Muller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings included.
The story unfolds of a woman who, in Van Gogh’s spiritual torment could recognize her own, showing priceless artistic treasures and the rare, naturalistic and architectural beauty of the Kroller-Muller Museum set in the vast De Hoge Weluge park, as well as visual extracts of the Milanese, Florentine, Roman and Palladian Renaissance. It tells the tormented, existential parable of a painter, seen through passages from his brother Theo’s letters, which set the pace of the exhibition, and it shows images of the places he lived and stayed in, from Paris to Provence.
The opportunity to tell the story of this collection and of the burning passion for art that led to it, is an outstanding exhibition on Van Gogh. ‘Amid wheat fields and clouded skies’ at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, brings together 40 paintings and 85 drawings from the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, Holland, now home to Helene’s heritage.
This is an exhibition that will not only tell us about Van Gogh’s art and his genius, but it will also allow us to understand the importance of drawing as part of his artistic technique. His seemingly instinctive, ‘au premier coup’ canvases were the result of long, preparatory studies, not sketches but complete works of art in themselves, where the broken flow of lines that characterizes the style of his paintings, can already be found.

Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love.
2019-02-19 19:30 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
“Identity is frail business, and in her searing story, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything, from her lineage, to her father, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name
To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website.

What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.
Timely and unforgettable, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy, paternity, and love.
Dani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist, Shapiro’s short fiction, essays, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the op-ed pages of the New York Times, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, the New School, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Alan Brennert reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
2019-02-20 19:30 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Alan Brennert

reads from Daughter of Moloka’i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 – 7:30pm

NT Live 2018 Fall Season: I'm Not Running
2019-02-21 19:00
Feb 5, 7, 12 & 21 7pm
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An explosive new play by David Hare
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to Rialto Cinemas.
Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision.
What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?
Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.

Maker Lab: Open Lab @Claremont
2019-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Berkeley Public Library, Claremont Branch, 2940 Benvenue Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
A place to drop in and try out:

Sewing on a Babylock sewing machine
Button-making
Drawing on the ProWise whiteboard
Experimenting with a Foldscope microscope
Needle-felting
Sculpting with modeling clay

No previous experience necessary! This program is for kids with parents, teens, and adults.

Guest Poet James Cagney
2019-02-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Berkeley Public Library, Claremont Branch, 2940 Benvenue Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory, is available from Oakland’s own Nomadic Press. James will read his poems, then sit for an interview; audience discussion will follow the interview. A month before the reading a free chapbook of James Cagney’s poems will be available at all BPL branches. James Cagney is the 11th poet in Claremont’s Clearly Meant series.

National Theatre Live 2019 Winter to Summer 4-Play Season
2019-02-26 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
National Theatre Live 2019 Winter to Summer 4-Play Season

Season Begins with
Alan Bennett’s Allelujah!
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We are thrilled to announce the National Theatre Live 2019 Winter to Summer 4-Play Season!
Allelujah!
Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ Daily Telegraph
directed by Nicholas Hytner
The Trajedy of Richard the Second
by William Shakespeare
starring Simon Russell Beale
directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins
an Almeida Theatre production
All About Eve
by Joseph L Mankiewicz
adapted & directed by Ivo Van Hove
starring Gillian Anderson & lily James
Small Island
adapted by Helen Edmundson
based on the novel by Andrea Levy
directed by Rufus Norris

Katie Peterson in Conversation with Louise Gluckdiscussing her new book of poems A Piece of Good News.
2019-02-28 19:30 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Katie Peterson in Conversation with Louise Gluck discussing her new book of poems A Piece of Good News.

Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson’s A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this remarkable and deeply felt collection.
Katie Peterson is the award-winning author of the poetry collections This One Tree, Permission, and The Accounts. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at UC Davis.
Louise Gluck is the author of a dozen books of poems and American Originality: Essays on Poetry. Her many awards include the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tech Week @BPL
2019-03-02 12:00 - 17:00 | Berkeley Public Library, Claremont Branch, 2940 Benvenue Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
March 2, 2019 – 12:00am to March 9, 2019 – 12:00am

Central Library
Claremont Branch
North Branch
Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch
West Branch

Come celebrate Tech Week at Berkeley Public Library! This is your chance to get up and close with facets of our technological world, right here at BPL. This week we will be having tech-related events all across the BPL system, including tech-related film showings, tech storytime, interactive programs, a maker fair, makerspaces, and more. Check out each location, or our event calendar, for details on what each location is having this week.
Events this Week
FixIt Clinic, Saturday March 2nd, 1:00pm – 4:00pm at THP South Branch
Bring your damaged items and our crack team of fixers will teach you how to get them running again!
Teen Soldering Workshop, Tuesday March 5th, 3:30pm – 5:00pm at North Branch
Learn basic electronic skills in a hands-on workshop!
Inventing Tomorrow, Wednesday March 6th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm at Claremont Branch
See a presentation from Cal NERDS and watch an inspiring documentary about teens making a difference with STEM! Pizza provided, while it lasts.
STEM Film: Searching, Wednesday March 6th, 5:30pm – 7:30 pm at Claremont Branch
See the 2018 techno thriller about a father searching for his missing daughter told entirely through his computer!
Author Keith A. Spencer, Wednesday March 6th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm at North Branch
Presenting his book A People’s History of SIlicon Valley.
Virtual Reality for All Ages, Thursday March 7th, 5:30pm – 7:00pm at West Branch
Tour the International Space Station and travel to the bottom of the ocean with our Vive VR system.
Cal Rocket Club Program, Friday March 8th, 4:30pm – 5:30pm at West Branch
Showing off their model rockets and teaching teens how to make the ultimate paper airplanes.
Code Your Own Star Wars Game, Friday March 8th, 3:30pm – 5:00pm at Central Children’s
Learn to code with Blockly and control BB-8! Ages 6-10, registration required.
Mini Maker Faire, Saturday March 9th, 1:00pm – 4:00pm in the Central Commons
Meet local tech companies and Bay Area innovators presenting hands-on activities!
Family Film: Big Hero 6, Saturday March 9th, 2:00pm – 4:00pm at North Branch
Bring the whole family for this STEM-y film and enjoy science crafts while you watch!

Elinor Lipman returns to celebrate the publication of Good Riddance
2019-03-06 19:30 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Elinor Lipman returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, Good Riddance, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post).

In this delightful new romantic comedy, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not, Daphne concluded, “spark joy”), she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd.
Elinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City.

Ashton Applewhite OFFSITE
2019-03-15 13:00 - 14:30
The Retirement Center and Ashby Village are pleased to host Ashton Applewhite, activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, a rousing manifesto against discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.

Applewhite takes readers and audiences on a journey, examining the historical roots of ageism and how it divides and diminishes us. She examines how ageist stereotypes affect the way our brains and bodies function in the workplace and the bedroom! Starting with her own experiences and her explorations of ageism, Ashton leads us to a vision of what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action.
Ashton Applewhite has been recognized by the New York Times, The New Yorker,National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks, speaks widely around the world, has written for Harper’s and Playboy, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? In 2016, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year.
For registration and more information see https://retirement.berkeley.edu/home.

Event address:

Clark Kerr Campus, Krutch Theater
2601 Warring St

Berkeley, CA 94720

Kids ages 5-10! Meera Sriram
2019-03-17 15:00 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Launch party for her picture book The Yellow Suitcase, a touching story that celebrates grandparental love.

“A thoughtful story that artfully addresses the loss of a grandparent from an immigrant perspective.” –-Kirkus
To reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Yellow Suitcase by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

Bring your kids to listen to Meera Sriram read and launch The Yellow Suitcase. Stick around for book signing, a small craft, and surprise treats from the book!

Meera Sriram lives with her husband and two children in Berkeley where she enjoys writing, teaching early literacy, and advocating diverse bookshelves. She has co-authored several children’s books published in India.

EXHIBITION On Screen 2018/19 Season: Young Picasso
2019-03-20 16:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
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Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have dealt with these later years – the art, the affairs and the wide circle of friends. But where did this all begin? What made Picasso in the first place? Too long ignored, it is time to look at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements.
Three cities play a key role: Malaga, Barcelona and Paris. Young Picasso visits each and explores their influence on Picasso, focusing on specific artworks from these early years. The film thus explains how this young artist acquired his craft. Looking carefully at two key early periods – the so-called Blue Period and Rose Period – the film takes us all the way to 1907 and the creation of a critical painting in the history of art – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. It was a painting that shocked the art world but changed it irrevocably. Picasso was only 25 years old. Working closely with all three Picasso Museums in Malaga, Barcelona and Paris this film explains how he rose to great heights.

Joyce Carol Oates reads from her novel: The Hazards of Time Travel
2019-03-20 19:30 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel, an ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society.

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of The Hazards of Time Travel by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

“Time travel”–and its hazards–are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America–“Wainscotia, Wisconsin”–that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”–but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating.
Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys,Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Timesbestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She spends winters in Berkeley.

NT Live 2019 Winter to Summer Season: Allelujah!
2019-03-21 19:00, 2019-04-07 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
NT Live 2019 Winter to Summer Season: Allelujah!

Feb 26, Mar 7, 12 & 21 7pm
Season Subscriptions On Sale Now!
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Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ Daily Telegraph
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run, don’t miss Alan Bennett’s ‘rousing chorus line for the NHS’ Observer at Rialto Cinemas!
The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.
Alan Bennett’s celebrated plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.
Letterpress graphic by Alan Kitching, art directed by Michael Mayhew. Please note Allelujah! has a BBFC rating of 15. Please note this production contains strong language.

Kurt Eichenwald presents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
2019-03-21 19:30 | Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Kurt Eichenwald presents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir, the compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author’s ongoing struggle with epilepsy– his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive, but to thrive.

“Inspirational in the true sense of the word….It is written with great verve and wisdom by someone who has closely and thoughtfully detailed his own plight as well as the journey out of it….A book to take heart from.”–Daphne Merkin, The New York Times Book Review
To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of A Mind Unraveled by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website.

As a college freshman, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment, physical abuse, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide.
This is the story of one man’s battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He details his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him.
Ultimately, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story, one that chronicles how Eichenwald, faced often with his own mortality, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being, he affirmed his decision to never give up, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success.
Kurt Eichenwald is the author of four previous nonfiction books. His second, The Informant, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweek and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Eichenwald spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, as well as the winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and an Emmy Award nominee. He lives in Dallas with his family.

Indie Lens Pop-Up: Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2019-03-27 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Indie Lens Pop-Up: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Indie Lens Pop-Ups
Wed, Mar 27 7pm
FREE!
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Won’t You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this emotional and moving film takes us beyond the zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart of a creative genius who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination.

Family in Transition
2019-03-28 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
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The story of a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely after their father finally decides to tell his family that he’s a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, but just as it seems that life is back to normal, she takes a sharp turn and shakes everything up again.
This is a story about a family that does not follow dictates; a family that breaks social conventions; a family that changes what we thought we knew about gender, parity, parenthood and being transgender. But most of all, it is a story about a family that redefines the limits of recognition, acceptance and love of those closest to us.
FAMILY IN TRANSITION is opening in theaters just as the Trump Administration is pushing to define transgender people out of existence. The film brings a level of vulnerability, openness, acceptance and love that the United States needs at this moment in time.

In Hebrew with English subtitles
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CatVideoFest
2019-03-30 12:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Bringing the joy of cat videos to the masses and raising money for cats in need.

Each year, CatVideoFest curates a compilation reel of the latest, best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and, of course, classic internet powerhouses. Screening events take place all over the world in a host of venues and raise money for cats in need, often through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to identify how best to serve cats in the area. The all-new edition will begin in February of 2019 and Oscilloscope plans to bring CatVideoFest to hundreds of theaters around the globe where patrons can enjoy the shared experience of communal joy that these videos bring out. What better way for us humans to come together than by watching cats?

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Slash is turning 40!!!!
2019-03-30 19:00 - 2019-03-31 19:00
To Our Friends in the Elmwood Neighborhood,

We’ll be having a 40 year Anniversary Party at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland on March 30, 7pm-1am. There will raffle prizes, a free gift bag to the first 50 guests, onsite chainstitch embroidery, and live music with DJs. Please stop by and enjoy the festivities!

Indie Lens Pop-Up: The Providers
2019-04-02 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
FREE!

Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, The Providers follows three “country doctors” in northern New Mexico at clinics that offer care to all who walk through the doors, regardless of ability to pay. With personal struggles that at times reflect those of their patients, the journeys of the providers unfold as they work to reach Americans who would otherwise be left without healthcare.

Great Art On Screen: Caravaggio - The Shape of Darkness
2019-04-03 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Wed, Apr 3 1 & 7pm

To Purchase Tickets Click HERE
After groundbreaking success in terms of audiences and critics of “The Vatican Museums” and “Florence and the Uffizi Gallery”, and after the release of “Raphael – The Lord of the Arts”, here it comes a new documentary dedicated to an Italian Master: Caravaggio – The shape of darkness.
A journey through life, works and struggles of Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio. His existence, no less than his art, is characterized by lights and shadows, contrasts and contradictions, genius and sobriety. Revolutionary artist, he was often not so beloved by contemporaries. He travelled Italy in search of luck or perhaps in search of himself, escaping the enemies that he always found at his passage. Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily. His death seems a twist of faith: he died in Porto Ercole, one step away from Rome, one step away from salvation.
According to the Longhi’s lesson (the main Caravaggio expert), his work will be read with strict reference to his existence, finding in his masterpieces the echo of personal experiences.

W. Thomas Boyce OFFSITE A celebration and reading from his new book The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive.
2019-04-05 18:30 | 2407 Dana St, Berkeley, CA, United States
“The Orchid and the Dandelion is based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children–and the adults who love them.”–Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts

From one of the world’s foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health–a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with “difficult” children, fully exploring the author’s revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success.
W. Thomas Boyce, M.D., is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health and chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at UCSF. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine and codirector of the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He lives with his wife in Oakland.

Event address:

2407 Dana St

Berkeley, CA 94720

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
2019-04-07 19:00 | Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Q&A to Follow With Filmmaker Arwen Curry – To Purchase Tickets Click HERE
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a feature documentary exploring the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin. Best known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of “respectable” literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her fascinating story has never before been captured on film.
Produced with Le Guin’s participation over the course of a decade, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a journey through the writer’s career and her worlds, both real and fantastic. Viewers will join the writer on an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her own as a major feminist author, opening new doors for the imagination and inspiring generations of women and other marginalized writers along the way. The film features stunning animation and reflections by literary luminaries including Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Michael Chabon, and more.
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, California Humanities, the Berkeley Film Foundation, and 3,185 backers on Kickstarter.

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CITYWIDE READ: Crazy Rich Asians Book Club Discussion @Claremont
2019-04-08 10:30 - 11:30 | Berkeley Public Library, Claremont Branch
Please join us for a lively discussion of Berkeley Public Library’s Citywide Read book, Crazy Rich Asians.

A limited number of copies will be available at the branch and staff can help you request copies from other branches and through Link+. The e-book is available for immediate download from Overdrive.
