Pamela Gaye Walker will perform her one-woman show “Little BIG Mouth” at The Marsh from July 12 to August 2. Credit: Ken Stone

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🎭 Veteran actress and writer Pamela Gaye Walker tackles the plight women face getting older in Hollywood with “Little BIG Mouth,” her fierce and unflinchingly personal account of reckoning with ambition, trauma and a lifetime of being sidelined. Sundays, July 12-Aug. 5, 5 p.m. The Marsh. $25-$100

🌳 The city of Berkeley is hosting a year-long gardening workshop series starting this week, where you can tend to a community garden while learning skills like composting and how to support local biodiversity. Every second Friday of the month, starting on Friday, July 10. 1:30-3 p.m. 1900 Sixth St. FREE

🎥 If you want to be creatively challenged, sign up for the Berkeley Community Media’s Summer Shorts Movie Jam, where up to 12 teams can sign up to write, shoot and edit a short film in only 48 hours. Films must include three secret clues that will only be revealed in the launch party. Launch party is on Friday, July 10, at 5 p.m. Films will be screened in front of a live audience on Sunday, July 12, at 7 p.m. and broadcast live on bcmtv.org. 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. FREE

🖼️ The ACCI Gallery presents their newest exhibition, “Mixed Doubles,” where over 30 artists worked in tandem to create works of art together. Exhibition runs from July 11 to Aug. 9. Opening reception is Saturday, July 18, 4-6 p.m. FREE

🎶 The Freight hosts its first-ever Education Community Festival for families, teachers, students, music lovers and members of the community, offering a rare peak at the educational work that reaches thousands of students and community members throughout the year via a diverse array of workshops, performances and presentations of the organization’s flagship Golden State of Song modules focusing on the World War II Japanese internment and Indian music in California. Saturday, July 11, noon-4:30 p.m. The Freight. FREE (registration encouraged)

🏳️‍⚧️ July marks Disability Pride Month — celebrate by attending the Center for Independent Living’s Disability and Trans/Queer Pride, which will honor Pride in the lens of disability justice through live performances, music, art and collective care. A makeup station, quiltmaking and storytelling station, and a quiet/low sensory space will also be available. Saturday, July 11, 1-4 p.m. 3075 Adeline St. FREE

♀️ A Women’s History Month celebration brings local vendors, artists and entrepreneurs to the library to share their books, projects and creations. Saturday, July 11, 1-4 p.m. Central Library Art & Music Study Hall. FREE

🎭 Berkeley Playhouse’s Spotlight Show production of Stephen Sondheim’s hit Broadway musical “Into the Woods” features alternating casts of 7-12 graders. July 11-19. Berkeley Playhouse. $36

🎶 Enjoy a lineup of local live music at Patiyochella, an all-ages backyard music festival. The festivities include a raffle to win locally sourced gifts, a ceramics painting pop-up and a game zone. Half of all profits will go to Oakland Elizabeth House, a transitional housing resource for women with children who have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, addiction or poverty. Saturday, July 11, 1-9 p.m. 1340 5th St. $38 advance, $50 at the door

🎷 Looking for musical coaching? Legendary jazz and blues singer Faye Carol and her trio will be offering free coaching for musicians of all backgrounds in improvisation, repertoire, ensemble interaction and performance skills in a supportive, collaborative setting. Saturday, July 11, 2-5 p.m. The Jazzschool. FREE (RSVP required)

🎭 Pearl Ong’s critically acclaimed “Night Driver” is back for an encore lap after winning the 2025 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Bay Area Award for best cabaret/concert/solo performance, chauffeuring audiences on the unexpected detours of a model minority gone rogue. Saturdays, July 11 – Aug. 8, 5 p.m. The Marsh. $25-$100

💦 Kate Washington discusses her new book, “Midstream,” which details her midlife-crisis quest to immerse herself in 50 different bodies of water, from swimming holes, hot springs, and rivers to lakes, creeks, and oceans. Saturday, July 11, 7 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. FREE (registration encouraged)

🎶 Veteran Oakland trumpeter (and multi-instrumentalist) Clyde Sutliff plays with his recently formed quintet Clyde The Blynd’s Hazmat 5, a roiling cauldron of jazz, dub and funk. Warning: Contents may cause involuntary dancing. Saturday, July 11, 7 p.m. Jupiter. FREE

🎸The Sing-Jam song sessions return to the Starry Plough for a night of rousing rock, pop, folk and R&B songs (plus a few Irish classics to honor the hosts), with lyrics and chords provided and light-handed music direction by Ben Kramarz, Nathan X Moody, Jane Mendonca and Nina Garcia. Saturday, July 11, 9 p.m. Starry Plough. $15-$20

🐎 Learn more about the proposed acquisition and plans for Golden Gate Fields in a presentation with Robert Cheasty, executive director of Citizens for East Shore Parks. Topics will include shoreline restoration, parks and open space, wildlife habitat, recreation and climate resilience. Cheasty will also answer questions from participants. Sunday, July 12, 3-5 p.m. Albany Library. FREE

🥁🎻 Among the brightest lights in the constellation of recent Berkeley High Jazz graduates are drummer Ellie Martens, aka Purplecat, who’s home from jazz studies in New York at the New School, and violinist/vocalist Tanvi Kumar, who combines deep training in Carnatic vocals with exceptional skills as a jazz improviser. Purplecat’s Harmonic Explosion features Kumar in a stellar young quartet. Sunday, July 12, 7 p.m. The Back Room. $20-$28

🐥 The long-running annual event Fur, Scales and Tails offers children the opportunity to encounter and interact with a variety of critters, a menagerie that might include chicks, guinea pigs, rabbits, turtles, snakes, ducks, tortoises, lizards, tarantulas and chickens. Monday, July 13, 3-4 p.m. North Branch Lawn. FREE

🖌️ Experiment with watercolor painting in an unstructured, community space. All materials will be provided. Wednesday, July 15, 4-5 p.m. West Branch Library. FREE

🎤 La Peña Cultural Center hosts “Las Mermeladas” every third Wednesday of the month, a low-pressure music jam featuring Latin American music styles. Bring an instrument to jam with fellow musicians in the moment, or come to sing, dance and/or listen. Wednesday, July 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE (RSVP)

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