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Louise Pearl\u2019s one-woman show \u201cPass the Nails and Shame The Devil\u201d will be playing on Saturdays from March 7 to April 18 at The Marsh. Credit: David Allen<\/p>\nLouise Pearl\u2019s one-woman show \u201cPass the Nails and Shame The Devil\u201d will be playing on Saturdays from March 7 to April 18 at The Marsh. Credit: David Allen<\/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 \ud83c\udfad Louise Pearl\u2019s one-woman show \u201cPass the Nails and Shame The Devil\u201d recounts the experience of her family\u2019s ordeal building their own house amid Oakland\u2019s 1980s crack epidemic as her strong-willed, Louisiana-born mother and gather a motley crew of men to make this dream home into a reality. Saturdays, March 7-April 18, 5 p.m. The Marsh. $25-$100<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f Are your walls looking bare? A poster sale will be held at the UC Berkeley campus, although all are welcome to peruse and buy posters. Sale is held every day through Saturday, March 7, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Upper Sproul Plaza at Telegraph Ave. and Bancroft Ave. FREE admission<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83c\udfa8 ACCI Gallery presents \u201cArt in the Fold,\u201d an exhibition displaying the world of folded artistry \u2014 from fabric pleating to the fold-forming of metal, paper origami, two-dimensional representations of the fold, and more. A talk will be held with the curator and artists of the exhibition on Saturday, March 7th at 2 p.m. Tickets to the artist talk are FREE; RSVP required<\/a>. The exhibition runs through Sunday, March 22, and gallery admission is FREE<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd4b Author Jeff Chang will speak about his latest book, \u201cBruce Lee and the Making of Asian America,\u201d a biography on Lee that Chang created by going through thousands of personal documents (including letters and rare photos) and exclusive, in-depth interviews with Lee\u2019s inner circle (including his first love and early fighting mentors). (Read more about the book<\/a>.) Thursday, March 5, 5:30 p.m. North Gate Hall and Jarvis Auditorium. $10<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcda Prolific author Rebecca Solnit discusses her new book \u201cThe Beginning Comes After the End,\u201d which surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. She\u2019s joined in conversation by Annie Leonard, former director of Greenpeace US. Friday, March 6, 7 p.m. St. John\u2019s Presbyterian Church. $24 (book included)<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf33 Help plant trees in Berkeley with the guidance of city staff to lead the work, demonstrate planting techniques, share safety tips and answer questions as you go. At San Pablo Park, help plant a row of new trees to rebuild canopy and add future shade near active areas, and stay afterwards for lunch and a short tour of trees already growing in the park. In South Berkeley, help plant a dense pocket forest using native saplings in a small urban space. Saturday, March 7 \u2014 9:15 a.m.-1 p.m. at San Pablo Park and 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the corner of Adeline St. and MLK Jr. Way. FREE (RSVP for San Pablo<\/a> and South Berkeley<\/a>)<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb7 Berkeley High Jazz presents the 15th annual JazzGirls+ Day, an afternoon for 10-to-14-year-old girls, female-identifying or non-binary musicians interested in meeting and playing with professional female jazz musicians. Participants have the opportunity to win full or partial scholarships to Bay Area music camps, including The JazzSchool, Cazadero Music Camp, Oaktown Jazz, Stanford Jazz Workshop, Lafayette Summer Music Workshop and Jam Camp West. Saturday, March 7, 1-4:30 p.m. Berkeley High School. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfbb The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention celebrates Women\u2019s History Month with women-led jams, workshops and a concert by the Stairwell Sisters. Saturday, March 7, 1-5 p.m. Central Library. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfee Imasala Collective will be hosting a Lantern Festival Popup, featuring food, pastries, jewelry and more from local Asian vendors. Sunday, March 8, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 1714 San Pablo Ave. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa8 Children aged 7 and up can explore their inner Picasso at a watercolor workshop. Granulating watercolors, which are formulated with pigments that separate into different colors and textures when mixed with water, will be used. No art experience is required. Sunday, March 8, 1 p.m. FREE with gallery admission<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf3f Spiral Gardens, a community-led farm in South Berkeley, will be hosting a casual planning session to brainstorm what to grow at the farm this spring. Veteran community farmers and first-time attendees are all welcome to participate in the planning session, complete other tasks like pruning and weeding and\/or just come to relax in nature. Sunday, March 8, 1-5 p.m. 2850 Sacramento St. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb8 Berkeley songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Harte performs with his band The Lemmonhammer on a triple bill with Berkeley singer\/songwriter Tamsen Flynn (of Morell\u2019s Bread fame<\/a>) and her Handsome Band with an opening set by Molly with Charles. Sunday, March 8, 3 p.m. The Ivy Room. $14.73<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb7 Mandala is a top-notch East Bay quartet dedicated to music by pianist Keith Jarrett\u2019s two great 1970s quartets (the \u201cAmerican\u201d and \u201cEuropean\u201d bands) featuring pianist Matt Clark, drummer Bryan Bowman, bassist Michael Wilcox and saxophonist Sheldon Brown. Sunday, March 8, 3 p.m. The Back Room. $20<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb6\u2640\ufe0f The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, the Jazzschool\u2019s resident composers\u2019 big band, celebrates Women\u2019s History Month on with a concert of music devoted to works by Bay Area women jazz composers with special guests saxophonist Jean Fineberg, pianist Anne Sajdera, and vocalists Andrea Claburn and Jamie Zee. The program includes their original compositions as well as tunes by local luminaries Myra Melford, Ayn Inserto, Jeanne Geiger, the ESO\u2019s resident poet, Avotcja, and Betty Reid Soskin. Sunday, March 8, 5:30 p.m. The Jazzschool. $20<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfad Berkeley Rep presents the fourth annual High School Theatre Festival, featuring original theatrical works from Campolindo High School, Hayward High School, Oakland School for the Arts, and Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cThere is Some Place Called Home.\u201d Monday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. FREE (RSVP required)<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcda Michael Pollan discusses his latest venture into the mysteries of human brain \u201cA World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness\u201d in conversation with journalist and podcaster Maya Shankar. (Read more about the book<\/a>.) Tuesday, March 10, 7 p.m. First Congregational Church of Berkeley. $37 (signed book included)<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf3d The Berkeley Food Institute and Graduate School of Journalism present a panel discussion about ultra-processed foods and the future of healthy food systems while considering the impact of California\u2019s first-in-the-nation legislation aimed at defining and removing harmful foods from school meals. Wednesday, March 11, 5 p.m. Brower Center. FREE (registration required)<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf0a The Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting \u201cNative Seas,\u201d a week-long series that will bring several Pacific Islander and Indigenous navigators from the Northern Mariana Islands to the Bay Area. They will hold one lecture at UC Berkeley to present their ancient knowledge systems and cosmology, share firsthand accounts of seafaring voyages and discuss their collective efforts to preserve their cultural heritage. Wednesday, March 11, 5 p.m. Jarvis Auditorium at the Grimes Engineering Center. FREE (RSVP required)<\/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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