To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of The Less Is More Garden by talking to one of our booksellers (510) 704-8222 or placing an order via our online store. Small space, big solutions. When it comes to gardens, bigger isn’t always better. A larger space requires more plants, more furniture, more maintenance, and more time. […]
On November 29, 2002, one year after the passing of George Harrison, Olivia Harrison and longtime friend Eric Clapton organized a performance tribute in his honor. Held at London's Royal Albert Hall, the momentous evening featured George's songs, and music he loved, performed by a lineup that included Clapton, Joe Brown, Dhani Harrison, Jools Holland, […]
Feb 27, Mar 1, 6 & 8 7pm By Tennessee Williams Directed by Benedict Andrews starring Sienna Miller & Jack O'Connell ★★★★ "Sienna Miller and Jack O'Connell get to a raw and naked truth." Metro ★★★★ "A brilliant, lacerating account of the play...unforgettable." Independent ★★★★ "A bold reimagining. Innovative and powerfully acted. " Sunday Times Tennessee […]
"Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin, America, and Morocco, about men and women, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift, as past and present converge, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel."--Margot Livesey, author of Mercury and Criminals
Calling all Treehouse Series fans! Join bestselling author Andy Griffiths as he presents the newest release in his award-winning series, The 78-Story Treehouse. Andy’s hilarious and highly interactive presentation will have your kids (and you!) in stitches. This free event is best for 5—10 year olds, but all ages are welcome. Buy your book at the theater, […]
In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, […]
Indie Lens Pop-Up Free Showing! Wed, Mar 7 7pm With intimate and unprecedented access, Peter Bratt's Dolores tells the story of Dolores Huerta, among the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history. Co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, she tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of […]
Thursday, March 8th at 6:00p --Lawyers in the Library –free legal referrals. Sign-ups start at 5:00p.m. for a spot with our visiting lawyer. Names will be pulled at random at 6:00p.m. for appointment times. Call 510-981-6280 for more information
The Poetry Circle at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library features you and what you like. Come with a favorite poem — or find one here! If you write poetry, share one of your own, too. We will be taking turns in a reading circle.
Join Eth Noh Tec for kinetic storytelling for all ages. Asia FantAsia does folk tales and myths from Korea, China, Japan, Tibet, Afghanistan, and other Asian cultures. Join us as Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo of Eth-Noh-Tec takes us on a playful adventure of the imagination with precision choreography and lyrical word-weaving. Ages 5 and up.
Saturday, March 3rd, 10th and 17 at 10:30am- Family Yoga on three consecutive Saturdays with Angela Madonia Family yoga is a place for kids to be kids. Kids and their adults make animal sounds, we jump, we stretch, we experiment with breath. Tips for incorporating yoga and mindfulness into daily life with kids is shared throughout. Siblings […]
March 13, 15, 20 & 22 7pm By William Shakespeare Directed by Lyndsey Turner Starring Benedict Cumberbatch "This is a Hamlet for a world on the edge: a warning from history, and a plea for new ideas from a new generation." Variety "Benedict Cumberbatch is a blazing five-star Hamlet." Daily Telegraph Academy Award nominee Benedict […]
Wed, Mar 14 1 & 7pm To Purchase Tickets Click HERE Ratmansky's explosive and energetic Revolutionary-era revival of Vasily Vainonen's "The Flames of Paris" ignites the Bolshoi's stage.
Peggy Orenstein The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays--funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls' and women's progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a "half-changed world."
Adult Story Time presents Carson McCullers' short story, "A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud". An earnest young boy and a tired traveler engage in a poignant dialogue about the science of love. We'll perform every word of McCullers' text. After the performance, stay for refreshments and a discussion of the story, genre and author. Would […]
Wed, Mar 21 1 & 7pm & Wed, Apr 18 4pm To Purchase Tickets Click HERE Presenting one of the most talked-about exhibitions of the year, dedicated to the portrait work of Paul Cezanne, which opens in Paris before traveling to London and Washington. Featuring interviews with curators and experts from the National Portrait Gallery London, MoMA […]
"A beautiful, richly textured novel, ambitious and delicately crafted."-- Rabih Alameddine In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling […]
Mar 27, 29, Apr 3 & 5 7pm To Purchase Tickets Click HERE Nicholas Hytner directs a new take on the Shakespeare classic Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David […]
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an […]