The Gilman Wine Block Party. Credit: Donkey & Goat Winery

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💥 Paola Bacchetta, professor and chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at Cal, will speak about her book “Co-Motion”, which proposes that power relations — such as colonialism, capitalism, racism — are so inseparable that a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects, and alliances should be created. Thursday. Feb. 5, Noon. 820 Social Sciences Building at UC Berkeley. FREE

🏈 Watch a star-studded flag football game featuring celebrities like NBA all-star Dwight Howard and artists like Diplo, Quavo, and NLE Choppa. (Read our story on the game.) Thursday, Feb. 5, 5 p.m. Cal Memorial Stadium. $43-$85 (tickets are free for UC Berkeley students and Berkeley firefighters and police)

📷 Matthew Naythons left Vietnam on a Marine helicopter out of Saigon the morning the city fell in 1975 and was the first journalist on the scene in Jonestown, landing after nightfall in the midst of the carnage. He covered the Yom Kippur War, the Nicaraguan revolution and the US invasion of Grenada, among other stories. For the presentation on his book “Light In Dark Places” he’s joined in conversation by J-School photography professor Ken Light. Thursday, Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m. North Gate Hall. FREE (tickets required)

🎭 Yes, all seven remaining shows of Shotgun Player’s critically hailed production of Sondheim’s “Sunday In the Park With George” are sold out, but the company’s website details several ways a determined would-be patron can obtain tickets. Thursday, Feb. 5-Sunday, Feb. 15. Shotgun Players. $50-$90

🚶🏿‍♀️Join a Black History walking tour written and designed by Cal staff and alumna Gia White. The tour draws from her extensive research about the earliest Black students at UC Berkeley, a few of many notable Black faculty members and the special spaces that Black people have fought to create for Black people on campus. Friday, Feb. 6, Wednesday, Feb. 11, and Tuesday, Feb. 17. Meet at Koret Visitor Center/Cal Athletic Hall of Fame at noon. FREE

🍏 We’re in the middle of winter, but you can relive 2024’s “Brat summer” in a screening of “The Moment,” Charli XCX’s semi-autobiographical mockumentary that balances satire and the real weight of sudden overnight fame. Screenings run from Friday, Feb. 6 to Thursday, Feb. 12. Rialto Cinemas Elmwood. $15-$17

🍷 The Gilman Wine Block hosts a First Friday open house, featuring local vintages and liberal decanting. Friday, Feb. 6, 3-8 p.m. 5thStreet between Gilman and Camelia. FREE

🇯🇲 West Africa and Jamaica converge when Amikara Music, Karamo Susso, Amina Janta, Ryan the Cool Operator, Toho, and Razor Blade come together to honor Bob Marley’s legacy, a sonic communion rooted in freedom, remembrance, and unity. Friday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. Ashkenaz. $20/$25

🎶 The Jazz Lounge at THP South returns with a show by Uruguayan singer, conguero and composer Edgardo Cambón with Edgardo & Candela, a top-shelf Bay Area salsa band known for high energy performances. Saturday, Feb. 7, noon. Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch. FREE

🎻Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale presents “Baroque Garlands”, an evening concert of Baroque music performed on period instruments. See the nearly 400-year-old upright bass that played Lincoln’s inauguration, one of the world’s only players of the musette (a French bagpipe) and conductor Nicholas McGegan leading the nation’s leading historically informed orchestra. Saturday, Feb. 7, 2:30 p.m. First Congregational Church. $40-$135, $20 for under 30s

🎓 Join a limited-time screening of the documentary “Epicenter,” which details how Black Studies as a curriculum was brought (with difficulty and success) to key institutions in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco. A Q&A session featuring the filmmakers Doug and Douglas Harris will follow. Saturday, Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. UC Berkeley International House. FREE

🇧🇷 Oakland Samba Revue brings a potent mix of samba, forró, funk and jazz to La Peña for Baile Brasil, a night of live music and dance preceded by a special dance lesson with Weslei Guimarães at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, 8:30 p.m. La Peña Cultural Center. $15-$30

🗯️ Watch a 90-minute documentary detailing “Inside the Free Speech Movement”, followed by a Q&A with director Linda Rosen. The documentary features oral history interviews, historic photographs and original sound recordings from the FSM. Sunday, Feb. 8, 2-4 p.m. Berkeley Historical Society and Museum. FREE

🇵🇸 Bears for Palestine is hosting their ninth annual gala with the theme “The Youth Will Remember.” The gala will showcase Palestine through art, poetry, music and more, and all proceeds raised will support humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza. Tickets are on sale to all community members, including but not limited to Cal students. Sunday, Feb. 8, 2:30 p.m. Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley. $39

🎹 Venezuelan-born piano maestro Edward Simon, the longest serving member of the SFJAZZ Collective, joins the Jazzschool’s resident Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, a talent-packed band featuring many of the region’s finest improvisers. Sunday, Feb. 8, 5:30 p.m. The Jazzschool. $20 ($10 students)

💃 Dance your heart out in a salsa, merengue and bachata dance series, featuring classes for dancers of all levels. Sign up soon — tickets are selling out quickly. Classes run from Feb. 9 to March 2. La Peña Cultural Center. $101 (sign up for beginner or advanced beginner classes)

📚 Author and scholar Dr. Matt Biggar reads from and discusses his new book “Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Communities, and Local Economies Through Systems Change,” joined in conversation by Dr. Scott Sampson, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 6 p.m. Pegasus Books Downtown. FREE

🎸 In honor of Black History Month the Jazzschool is hosting a weekly series casual talks and listening sessions with local jazz luminaries and this week’s session features guitarist Karl Evangelista on Ornette Coleman. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 12:30 p.m. The Jazzschool. FREE

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