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<\/p>\nOn Thursday, February 5th, 2026, clubs at Berkeley High School were able to share their goals, topics and their importance at the Spring Club Fair. The club fair is an opportunity for BHS clubs to showcase their message to an enormous number of students ready to join. The buzz of the fair could be heard from all over the school with the excitement of students deciding to try something new and clubs enthusiasm for them to join.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Students got the chance to browse through over 60 different clubs that BHS offers; clubs range on many different subjects from clubs that center around the arts to ones that focus on STEM,\u00a0 as well as clubs that anchor around social injustices that the student body feel should be changed and discussed in the community. Read on to learn about some of the clubs on-campus that were present at the club fair.<\/p>\n
Cinema Club<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re calling it a book club, but with movies,\u201d Mira Bradley, a BHS sophomore and Cinema Club co-president, said on Cinema Club being a space where students are able to develop a deeper understanding of movies while also socializing with their peers. Bradley has always loved watching movies with friends, so the Cinema Club allows her to do something fun and relaxing while meeting new people and spending time with friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cambria Frozena, another BHS sophomore and Cinema Club member, shared that the club and those leading it have goals beyond just watching movies. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna have bake sales to raise money for local theaters,\u201d Frozena said. Both Bradley and Frozena feel strongly about local and small theaters getting consumed by the big brands like AMC, and would like to help revive them in any way they can. The Cinema Club strives to raise money and awareness for local theaters, such as Rialto Cinema Elmwood.<\/p>\n
Dance Club<\/p>\n
The Dance Club at BHS is a space for students to learn and get comfortable with dancing without embarrassment. \u201cBasically encourage people to not be embarrassed to dance and try new styles without having the pressure to be in competitions,\u201d Mariana Hidalgo, a BHS junior and Dance Club president, said about the purpose of the club. Hidalgo expressed that the Dance Club is a very supportive community of people who are there to have fun and express themselves through dance\/performance arts. Lin Reid, a sophomore at BHS and Dance Club secretary, also shared how the club \u201callows students who may have been more interested in (dance in) the past to just try all experience levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Hidalgo, the goal of the Dance Club is not solely to be the best dancer in the room but to ensure that everyone feels safe to fully immerse themselves in dance. \u201cYou need to encourage people to dance together, not just try to be the main dancer,\u201d Hidalgo explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Students from Donate the Dough club give out cookies at their table to attract interested students.\n <\/p>\n
BHS Stop Harassing<\/p>\n
BHS Stop Harassing is a club focused on educating students at BHS and Berkeley Unified School District middle schoolers on sexual, racial, and gender-based harassment. \u201cWe work to end gender, race violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape culture on (BHS) campus,\u201d Rose Levine, a BHS senior and BHS Stop Harassing co-president, said. Some members are not especially well-informed on these topics upon initially joining the club; however, through their membership, they gain deeper understanding that they are then able to share with peers.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Due to the sensitivity and importance of the topics the club covers and educates others on, it is vital that members of the club are able to fully trust each other emotionally. \u201cI love the community. I think everyone is super supportive and everyone is really passionate,\u201d Samira McCarthy, a BHS junior and BHS Stop Harassing social media coordinator, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Comparative Ideologies<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that we have a lot of very smart people here in Berkeley,\u201d Simon Spinrad, founder of the Berkeley High Comparative Ideologies club, said. \u201cBut I think it \u2026 could benefit them a lot to expand their knowledge, specifically on political ideologies.\u201d The club aims to provide a space for students to introduce, analyze, and learn about political mindsets that aren\u2019t particularly common at BHS or in Berkeley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The club gathers biweekly on Thursdays, and meetings are going to be structured around a different political belief system each time. Sprinad hopes to host many guest speakers, such as University of California, Berkeley conservative groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A primary goal of the club is to provide education to BHS students, while simultaneously providing a fun club space. According to Spinrad, a meeting at Comparative Ideologies club should provide any student with \u201creally interesting, fun lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shiny Beaches<\/p>\n
If you walk into room C-213 on a Thursday at lunch, chances are you\u2019ll find the Shiny Beaches club. Shiny Beaches is a beach clean up club that focuses on climate and pollution impacts on the environment. \u201cWe hope to\u00a0 educate about the ecosystem and different factors impacting it … (especially) the aquatic ecosystem,\u201d BHS senior Isabella Ramos, Shiny Beaches founder, said. The club hosts lessons every other week where they talk about the environment over snacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really try to make an impact in BHS and also just in the greater Berkeley area,\u201d Ramos said. The club does beach clean ups around the bay, with the intention to protect the existing environment. Members of the club put an emphasis on fostering a sense of community within the club, in addition to creating an environmentally conscious mindset at BHS. The Shiny Beaches club strives to have an organized coalition of students motivated to preserve nature in the bay.<\/p>\n
Enviro-Tech<\/p>\n
Enviro-Tech is a club at BHS that focuses on the technology behind helping the environment. According to BHS freshman Julian Pay and Enviro-Tech co-founder, the mission of the club is to \u201cmake legislative change and also help the environment with technology. We are also going on field trips to educate the people around us,\u201d Pay said. One of the field trips that the club is planning to take is to the local composting plant. Their hope is that the members of the club can learn more about the technology behind how composting works.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lex Harris, a freshman at BHS and Enviro-Tech vice-president, shared how the club is inclusive of any members excited to join. \u201cEverybody can join. There\u2019s no restrictions, and you meet a lot of new people,\u201d Harris said. He and Pay both shared that there are many skills students are able to learn in the Enviro-Tech club. These include, how to be creative, how to be an effective leader, in addition to the knowledge of the environment that members gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, February 5th, 2026, clubs at Berkeley High School were able to share their goals, topics and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-197350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}