Strawberry Creek Park will have an outdoor showing of “Wicked: For Good” on Friday, June 12. File photo: Sara Martin/Berkeleyside

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🎨 You’re invited to the opening reception for the Brower Center’s 2026 annual local exhibition, “Flow State,” which runs through Aug. 20 and features five jury-selected Northern California artists interrogating borders and examining how physical, societal and imagined boundaries shape each other. Thursday, June 11, 6:30 p.m. The Brower Center. FREE (with registration)

🥁A mainstay on the Bay Area jazz scene who can be found playing in clubs, bars and jam sessions around the region, drummer Isaac Schwartz leads a hard grooving trio under the patio redwoods. Friday, June 12, 7 p.m. Jupiter. FREE

🎶 The Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra celebrates its 60th anniversary with the premiere of Michael Schachter’s newly commissioned “Terezin Requiem,” his latest work exploring the role of music and art in a concentration camp infamous as a Nazi showcase. The concert also includes Haydn’s “Thereseinmesse.” Friday, June 12, 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, June 13-14, 4 p.m. First Presbyterian Church. FREE (with registration)

💀 Berkeley flat-picking patriarch Eric Thompson, an early collaborator with Jerry Garcia, presents Dead Roots Revival, a talent-laden assemblage that includes pianist/accordionist Sam Reider, body percussionist Keith Terry, Wake the Dead mandolinist Paul Kotapish and Berkeley fiddler Suzy Thompson. Friday, June 12, 8 p.m. Ashkenaz. $20-$25

🎥 The city is kickstarting its summer Movies in the Park series, with a film playing at the park every two weeks. This week, “Wicked for Good” will be playing; come 30 minutes early to find street parking and set up blankets and chairs. (Other films this summer: “Jurassic World Rebirth,” “Smurfs,” “GOAT,” “Super Mario Galaxy” and “Spongebob Search for Squarepants.”) Friday, June 12, 8:40 p.m.-11 p.m. Strawberry Creek Park. FREE

🎶 Berkeley native Lillian Gordis will perform in a recital on the harpsichord for an all-Bach program that explores the number “3” and its multiples in a new, intensely personal journey based on her recently released album. Friday, June 12, 9:30 p.m. 2300 Bancroft Way. FREE

🍇 Volunteer with Mayor Adena Ishii at the Berkeley Food Network, where volunteers will help with a variety of hands-on projects in warehouse and pantry operations. All ages and abilities are welcome, and training, snacks and tours will be provided throughout the day. Saturday, June 13, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE (RSVP required)

🎤 The Berkeley Flea Market is celebrating its grand reopening with local vendors accompanied with live music, standup comedy, an art walk and acrylic paint pouring experience. Saturday, June 13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE

🪴 Learn how to create and maintain a container garden, including with annuals, perennials, bulbs and more. All gardening experience levels are welcome. Saturday, June 13, 11 a.m. 1310 McGee Ave. FREE (RSVP required)

✨ The Itty Bitty Market will feature handmade goods and vintage treasures for sale, as well as a pop-up where you can get sparkly tinsel installed in your hair. Applications are also being accepted for vendors of this street market. Saturday, June 13, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 1919 Fourth St. FREE

💐 La Peña Cultural Center is hosting their annual tianguis (open-air market) honoring Frida Kahlo’s birthday, where you can find BIPOC vendors, food and drinks, live music, and family-friendly activities throughout the day. Saturday, June 13, noon-6 p.m. FREE

🌳 Berkeleyside’s Joanne Furio, who also writes creative nonfiction, will read her essay “The Mother Tree” at the Gearbox Gallery in Oakland. The essay features a backyard redwood in Berkeley and connects with the current exhibition, “Field Notes,” featuring the work of Oakland artists Linda Ellinwood and Joy Every. The reading will be followed by a Q&A Furio will conduct with the artists. Saturday, June 13, 2 p.m. FREE

🔔 An interactive workshop will explore communal sound-making using drums, bells, seashells, bicycle rims, cookie tins and other found objects from everyday life and the natural world. Participants will experiment with collaborative improvisation and rhythm-making. Saturday, June 13, 2 p.m. 2210 Harold Way. $25🇭🇺 The Ágnes Asszony Company, a Hungarian theater troop, performs (in Hungarian) “Ballads of Golden János” with musical accompaniment of jazz singer and pianist Enikó Raczkó, who also performs independent songs. Saturday, June 13, 2:30 p.m. Orly Museum of Hungarian Culture. $25 (children under 10 free)

🏳️‍🌈 Celebrate Pride Month with “Spin A Tale,” a story slam hosted by Marsh bartender Karen Ripley where every spin elicits a prompt for a five-minute tale. LGBTQIA+ community members and allies are welcome. Sunday, June 13, 6 p.m. The Marsh. $10-$25

🎤 In conjunction with the critically hailed musical “The Lunchbox,” Berkeley Rep and RootStock Arts presents Carnatic vocalist Roopa Mahadevan’s Roopa in Flux Unplugged, an ensemble that blends South Indian classical vocals with jazz, R&B, soul, and free improvisation (a separate ticket is required for the evening’s performance of “The Lunchbox”). Saturday, June 13, 6:45 p.m. Michael’s Second Act. FREE (with RSVP)

🎶 North Bay jazz vocalist Stella Heath celebrates her excellent new album “For Billie,” a project celebrating the life, legacy, and music of Billie Holiday with savvy arrangements that honor the swing era idioms without sounding self-consciously vintage. Saturday, June 13, 7:30 p.m. The Freight. $44-$64

🎥 San Francisco filmmaker Sara Dosa’s documentary “Time & Water” is meditation on loss and environmental degradation drawn from Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason’s glacial archives. The screening is followed by a Q&A moderated by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich (who directed “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”). Monday, June 15, 6:30 p.m. Rialto Cinemas. $15.25

📚 Author and essayist Andrew Lam discusses his collection of short stories, “Stories from the Edge of the Sea,” exploring love and loss among Vietnamese Americans living in the Bay Area, haunted by memories of war and the subsequent diaspora. Tuesday, June 16, 6 p.m. Central Library, Mystery Room. FREE

🎥 The Hillside Club’s documentary series presents “The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane,” Maureen Gosling’s intimate look at the eventful life and times of the leftist folk, jazz, blues vocalist who spent much of her career in the East Bay. Wednesday, June 17, 7 p.m. Hillside Club. $13

🍵 Far Leaves Tea hosts a story slam every month, where you’re encouraged to bring, share and listen to stories according to the theme. This month’s meeting encourages you to think of a place you love, whether it’s an island, mountain, city or community — a place that stayed with you even after you left. Complimentary tea is included. Wednesday, June 17, 7:30 p.m. $5-$15 sliding scale

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