Award-winning Bay Area costume designer Abra Berman will explore the history of ballet costumes on Friday, May 29, at the Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles. Credit: Joanne Furio for Berkeleyside

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💃 Award-winning Bay Area costume designer Abra Berman explores the history of ballet costumes, from the origins of court dance through the grand pas deux of the Classical and Romantic era tutu. Friday, May 29, 7 p.m. Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles. $10

♻️ Looking to get or get rid of furniture? Cooperative Reuse is conducting their semi-annual furniture exchange and recycling program, where you can donate your used furniture if you’re a Cal affiliate, and you can get free furniture regardless of if you’re a Cal affiliate or not. Program runs through May 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Clark Kerr Southwest Parking Lot. FREE

📚 Environmental writer Jennie Durant discusses her new investigatory book “Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them” in conversation by novelist and essayist Mary Volmer, co-founder of the arts collective Maker, Mentor, Muse. Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. FREE (RSVP appreciated)

📚📚 📚 The 12th annual Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley, where over 350 speakers, 120 panels, 15 free writers’ workshops and 150 exhibitors will convene to share their love of books and literature. Stop by Berkeleyside’s booth on Sunday at the corner of Allston Way and Harold Way and say hello. Friday-Sunday, May 29-31. Downtown Berkeley. FREE

🎨 Meet up with other artists and draw in the UC Botanical Garden, hosted by artist Forest Stearns of DRAWEVERYWHERE Studios. During the meet-up, you can shadow Forest in action and ask questions, work on your own piece, discover other artists’ style and approach, share in practice and see the Garden in new ways. Friday, May 29, 9:15 a.m. Attendance included with Garden admission

🖼️ Join the Berkeley Art Center for a final evening with their Open Center artists-in-residence Jillian Crochet, Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh, Natalie Palms and Sabina Shanti Kariat. Hear directly from the artists about their practices, the works they’ve been developing and the experiences that have shaped their time at the Center. Friday, May 29, 6 p.m. FREE (donations encouraged)

🎹 With Julian on drums, Steve on bass, and Colin on keyboards and accordion, Berkeley’s longest running residency brings the Hogan Brothers back to their perch under the patio redwoods for the month’s final Friday playing a far-ranging repertoire of funk, jazz and beyond. Friday, May 29, 7 p.m. Jupiter. FREE

🐦 Take a birding field trip to Lake Temescal, where you and a group will walk around the lake to find and identify birds floating in the water and hiding in the cattails. Beginners are welcomed and encouraged, and all ages are welcome. Saturday, May 30, 8:30 a.m. Meet at South Branch Library. FREE (registration required)

🚲 Come to the Bike Mobile for free bike repairs, including issues with brakes, flat tires and shifters. First come, first served. Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tool Lending Library. FREE

👕 Explore the intersections of style and storytelling in a workshop hosted by Ashlin Randolph, where you will create a personal piece that reflects your story, style and cultural influences. No art experience is required, and all materials will be provided. Saturday, May 30, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Imasala Collective. $45

🕶️ Indulge your inner fashionista by attending the Beyond Trend Runway Show and Fundraiser, which will debut wearable art made and modeled by artists with disabilities. Musical performances include Grammy award-winning Fantastic Negrito and Oakland native FELA KUTCHii. Saturday, May 30, 4 p.m. 935 Carleton St. Sliding scale tickets for virtual livestream, $250-$600 for in-person attendance

🎭 Written and performed by Carole Klyce and directed by Deb Fink, “Flight Risk” recounts Klyce’s harrowing journey from 11-year-old orphan to on-the-lam adolescent escaping a group foster care home and juvenile detention facility at 12 and her eventual enrollment in college, political activism and family. Saturdays, May 30-June 20, 5 p.m. The Marsh. $25-$100

🍵 To close off Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, Teance is hosting a tea and book social featuring “Green Island” by Shawna Yang Ryan, which explores the life of a young doctor taken from his family during political upheaval, and how that moment reverberates through generations. Six teas will be served during the conversation. Saturday, May 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $25

🇧🇷 Born in northeastern Brazil, Khalifa do Accordion is a highly regarded accordionist, pianist, keyboardist, and bass guitarist based in the Bay Area who combines his mastery of forró with jazz, pop, and world beats. Saturday, May 30, 8 p.m. Ashkenaz. $20-$25

🇫🇮 The Finnish Heritage Society and Outsound Presents “Soul Bird Suite,” a musical odyssey of avian tales from Finnish mythology performed by saxophonist Rent Romus’s and multi-instrumentalist Heikki Koskinen‘s The Otherworld Ensemble with Zelle, Kitka’s East Bay community chorus. Sunday, May 31, 7 p.m. Berkeley Finnish Hall. $17

📰 Three leading Bay Area journalists discuss the state of media today and what each is doing to address issues such as trust and accountability in news reporting. The panel includes Michael D. Bolden, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Sally Lehrman, an award-winning journalist and founder and CEO of the Trust Project. Monday, June 1, 7:30 p.m. Hillside Club. FREE (with registration)

📚 Artist and author Alberto Ledesma, assistant dean for diversity, inclusion, and equity at UC Berkeley, talks about his library exhibition “Cartooning Against Silence: Futile Prayers from an Undocumented Heart” and discusses his forthcoming follow-up, tentatively titled “An Undocumented Psalm to Heal My American Heart.” Tuesday, June 2, 5 p.m. Central Library. FREE

📚 The Berkeley Institute’s latest reading group, moderated by Syeda Fatima Hussayni, holds the first of three sessions for “The Legend of the Wandering King” by Laura García Gallego (please register only if you’re committed to attending all the meetings). Tuesday, June 2, 6 p.m. Berkeley Institute. FREE

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