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BUSD\u2019s Fix-it Fest returns on Saturday, Feb. 28, where you can bring in broken items and get them fixed with the help of BUSD students and repair coaches. Courtesy: The Culture of Repair Project<\/p>\nBUSD\u2019s Fix-it Fest returns on Saturday, Feb. 28, where you can bring in broken items and get them fixed with the help of BUSD students and repair coaches. Courtesy: The Culture of Repair Project<\/p>\n
Never miss local events!\u00a0Sign up for Berkeleyside\u2019s arts and culture newsletter, The Scene<\/a>. And check out our roundup of affordable things to do anytime in Berkeley<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcda The Fountain Theatre of Los Angeles, Adrienne Torf, and the Arts Research Center host a discussion and celebrate the legacy of June Jordan\u2019s original Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley, featuring former student-teacher poets who worked directly with Jordan and instructors who continue her legacy. Thursday, Feb. 26, 3:30 p.m. Hearst Field Annex, D3. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcd8 Transit Books, an indie Berkeley-based book publisher, will have its inaugural book club featuring behind-the-scenes discussions on Transit-published books. This meeting will feature \u201cA Very Cold Winter\u201d by Fausta Cialente, where the book\u2019s Italian-to-English translator and editor will discuss how they wrote the book and Cialente\u2019s history as an early feminist and anti-fascist writer in Italy. (Read our stories about the book<\/a> and about the publisher<\/a>.) Thursday, Feb. 26, 6:30 p.m. 1250 Addison St., Suite 103. $10 for non-members<\/a><\/p>\n \u2721\ufe0f \u270a\ud83c\udfff Fresh off serving as a major voice in the new four-part PBS series \u201cBlack and Jewish America: An Interwoven History,\u201d San Francisco State Professor Marc Dollinger joins Ilana Kaufman, head of the Jews of Color Initiative, for an evening of dialogue centering on his recent book \u201cBlack Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s.\u201d Thursday, Feb. 26, 6:30 p.m. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. FREE (with registration)<\/a><\/p>\n \u265f\ufe0f UC Berkeley\u2019s theater department presents the play \u201cAdaptation\u201d by Elaine May \u2014 produced, directed and performed by UC Berkeley undergraduate students. Adaptation is a satirical play featuring a reluctant game contestant, Phil, as he tries to progress through life as if moving through a game board, while the Game Master sets absurdist rules that reflect the futility of the American Dream. Thursday, Feb. 26 and Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Zellerbach Hall. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfad Berkeley Rep is showing \u201cAll My Sons\u201d by Arthur Miller, featuring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Jimmy Smits and acclaimed actress \u2014 and Smits\u2019 real-life partner \u2014 Wanda De Jes\u00fas. The play begs the question of, \u201cWho benefits and pays for the American Dream?\u201d, while reimagining the play through the lens of a Puerto Rican family from the 1940s. Show runs through Sunday, March 29. $25-278<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb8 The Vernaculars, an all-star Bay Area improvisational ensemble featuring Karl Evangelista (guitar), Francis Wong (tenor saxophone), Chris Trinidad (bass), Jimmy Biala (drums), and David James (guitar), play the music of guitarist Sonny Sharrock\u2019s 1991 album \u201cAsk the Ages.\u201d There will be shredding. Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. The Back Room. $20-$25<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/a> Just bought an e-bike and\/or want to know how to ride one safely? (Read our story about e-bike culture in Berkeley.<\/a>) An e-bike safety workshop hosted by Bike East Bay will cover safe riding techniques and battery maintenance, e-bike classifications and more. Friday, Feb. 28, 11 a.m.-noon. South Branch Library. FREE (RSVP required<\/a>)<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa8 Now is your last chance to catch a local artist co-op\u2019s latest exhibition featuring works from nine emerging artists. The works vary widely in medium, including 3D prints, collages, sculptures and tattoo art. Artist talks will take place on Saturday, Feb. 28, and Sunday, March 1, from 2-4 p.m. The gallery is open on Fridays from 6-8 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 p.m. 2727 California St.\u00a0FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd Conceived by Palestinian American choreographer Samar Haddad King, Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Gathering, a multilayered work that explores love, loss, trauma, and dislocation through movement, text, song, and puppetry. Friday-Sunday, Feb. 27-March 1. Zellerbach Playhouse. $64-$69<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf00 Central Works presents a world premiere of \u201cAfter Happy,\u201d a comedic play about what happens after a hurricane named Happy devastates Lake Charles, Louisiana. The owner of an oil company scrambles to find a Pirate Queen for the company-sponsored Pirate Festival, but when her niece Kat shows up to town unexpectedly, will Kat be the saving grace or downfall of the festival? Show runs from Feb. 28 to March 29. $35-45, with sliding scale $20-40 tickets available at noon day-of-show<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc0e The 20th Fourth Street Lunar New Year celebration launches the year of the Fire Horse at a gallop with an array of activities, including the Kei Lun lion dance. Gung hay fat choy! Saturday, Feb. 28, noon-4 p.m. Delaware at Fourth Street. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udd28 If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it, but if it\u2019s busted, the Berkeley school district has got your back. Bring your broken things to the district\u2019s Fix-it Fest to get help from repair coaches and students on how to fix them. (Read our story on how the Fix-it Fest initiative began in 2024.<\/a>) Registration is now open to get an item(s) fixed and\/or participate as a volunteer. Bring small appliances, electronics, one-person wheeled transportation devices, clothing\/textiles, toys, jewelry, small furniture and more, but items should be transportable by a single person. Owners\u2019 manuals, spare or broken parts will increase the odds of a repair. Saturday, Feb. 28, 1-3:30 p.m. Longfellow Middle School. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc67 Join an in-person screening of \u201cPalestine 101 History for Kids,\u201d a video-based curriculum designed to help children learn the history, culture and resistance of Palestine. Three modules will be shown, followed by a Q&A panel with the instructors of each module. Saturday, Feb. 28, 2-5 p.m. David Brower Center. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb6 Curious about why humans respond so strongly to music we love? Violinist, vocalist and teacher Lila Sklar expands your musical horizons with \u201cAnatomy of a Song,\u201d a workshop using mindfulness, close listening, discussion, and analysis of selected pieces of music to broaden understanding and appreciation of the rich world of sound. Feel free to bring an instrument if you play one. Saturday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m. Central Library. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \u270a\ud83c\udffd As part of the ongoing exhibit on Berkeley\u2019s Latino community (read our story<\/a>), which closes March 21, the Berkeley Historical Society & Museum explores the roots of Latino art and how that legacy has inspired the creativity of artists today with a presentation and artist discussion \u201cLatino Visual Arts: Pride, Resilience, and Resistance.\u201d Sunday, March 1, 1 p.m. Berkeley Historical Society & Museum. FREE (donations appreciated)<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfad A one-woman show chronicling Amy Oppenheimer\u2019s wending path from hippie, lesbian feminist to attorney and judge ensconced in the criminal justice system, \u201cLooking For Justice\u201d is an earnest, self-questioning and often humorous piece that starts with her arriving in Berkeley in the early 1970s. Sundays, March 1-29, 5 p.m. The Marsh. $25-$100<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83e\udd41Oakland percussion maestro John Santos presents \u201cThe African Roots of Latino Jazz,\u201d a program featuring his illustrious Latin jazz sextet and an array of special guests, including Congolese-American percussionist Kiazi Malonga, Guinean percussionist Bongo Sidib\u00e9, master drummer Baba Mosheh Milon and vocalist Lakeba Pittman. Sunday, March 1, 7 p.m. The Freight. $39-$44<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f BAMPFA\u2019s upcoming exhibition, \u201cRhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection,\u201d will feature many works that will be given as a bequest by Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, a Berkeley-based couple and supporters of the arts. The artwork will come from Cooper and Rosenwasser\u2019s private collection, consisting mostly of work by women artists from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition will be available for view from Wednesday, March 4 through Sunday, June 28.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcfa If you\u2019ve watched or heard of the Netflix TV show \u201cOrange is the New Black,\u201d now is your chance to meet the real Piper Kerman. Kerman will discuss her real-life experience as an inmate in a federal prison after being convicted of drug trafficking, how it relates to increasing state violence and how she adapted her experiences to the Netflix series. Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m. Berkeley City Club. $5-$10<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f\u00a0See more things to do\u00a0in\u00a0Oakland<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Richmond<\/a>.\u00a0And check out our big list of\u00a0affordable things to do<\/a>\u00a0anytime in Berkeley.\u00a0Sign up for our\u00a0weekly arts and culture newsletter<\/a>, The Scene.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s an event you\u2019d like us to consider for this roundup, email us at\u00a0the-scene@berkeleyside.org<\/a>. The deadline to submit events for Around Berkeley is end-of-day Monday. If there\u2019s an event that you\u2019d like to promote on our calendar, you can use the self-submission form on our\u00a0events page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Your gift fuels our journalism.<\/p>\n Everyone deserves to have someone looking out for them, including you. That\u2019s why we made it our job. 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