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Celebrate Mother\u2019s Day at the Berkeley Rose Garden with live jazz, tea and multiple activity stations on Saturday, May 9. Credit: Clara Mokri<\/p>\nCelebrate Mother\u2019s Day at the Berkeley Rose Garden with live jazz, tea and multiple activity stations on Saturday, May 9. Credit: Clara Mokri<\/p>\n
Never miss local events!\u00a0Sign up for Berkeleyside\u2019s arts and culture newsletter, The Scene<\/a>. And check out our\u00a0roundup of affordable things to do anytime in Berkeley<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u262e\ufe0f Join the Berkeley YWCA for a talk with Gina Fromer, president and CEO of the GLIDE Foundation, to explore topics such as educational equity, generational poverty and pathways toward community empowerment. The program will also include an audience Q&A and light refreshments. Thursday, May 7, 6 p.m. 2600 Bancroft Way. $6-$11<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa4 Leland Productions present an evening of original songs by and for humans, the latest in a second-Friday series showcasing a different series of performers at each event. Friday, May 8, 6-7 p.m. Live Oak Park Amphitheater. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\ude94 Join UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Sarah Lee on a historical walking tour around campus, \u201cCollege Cops: UC Berkeley and the Creation of Modern Policing.\u201d Learn about how public spaces on campus acted as a staging ground for monumental changes to policing and student and faculty resistance to those changes. Saturday, May 9, 11 a.m. Gayley Rd. and University Dr. across from the Greek Theatre. FREE (RSVP required)<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83e\udeb4 ACCI Gallery is hosting an art and plant sale, with art created by 25 artists and plants grown by Berkeley Garden Club members. The Las Caba\u00f1as Mexican Grill taco truck will also be on-site for you to grab a bite while shopping. Saturday, May 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 1652 Shattuck Ave. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcda Presented in collaboration with Albany Public Library, Satsuki Ina discusses her activism and book about the experience of her parents during World War II internment, \u201cThe Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest.\u201d Saturday, May 9, 1 p.m. Central Library. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc90 Fourth Street celebrates Mother\u2019s Day with live music by Ruben Hurtado y su Descarga (Saturday) and the vocal ensemble Jazz-ology (Sunday), a flower giveaway (while supplies last), a station for crafting handmade cards, and hand\/arm massages by Aveda. Saturday-Sunday, May 9-10, 1\u20133 p.m. Fourth Street @ Delaware. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83e\udeb7 Celebrate the matriarch in your life at the Mother\u2019s Day: Hats and High Tea event with live jazz, tea and various activity stations including jewelry-making and canvas painting. Saturday, May 9, 2-5 p.m. Berkeley Rose Garden. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Classical-and-beyond pianist Lara Downes presents a judicious celebration of the United States\u2019 impending 250th birthday with \u201cThis Land: Reflections On America,\u201d a talent-packed program of song, spoken word and poetry with vocal great Judy Collins, Tank and the Bangas frontwomen Tarriona \u201cTank\u201d Ball, the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, and more. Saturday, May 9, 8 p.m. Zellerbach Hall. $33-$135<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83e\udd20 Don Burnham\u2019s long musical trail started in a UC Berkeley dorm room in the early 1960s, and brought him to the center of the Bay Area Western swing scene with the band Lost Weekend. Before he rides off into the sunset in New Zealand he\u2019s playing a series of farewell shows with the Bolos, a talent-laden combo featuring Charlie Wallace on pedal steel guitar and fiddler Jeremy Cohen. Saturday, May 9, 8 p.m. The Back Room. $20-$25<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf4a If you\u2019re looking for a way to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, take a Chinese paint brush painting class. Paint flowers and fruits with lucky meanings with Pauline Tsui, a local artist and docent of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Monday, May 11, 10:30 a.m. Claremont Branch Library. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb9 From boogie to baroque, blues to bossa nova, Gershwin and Bach to Fats Waller, pianist Ellen Hoffman invites singers and instrumentalists of all stripes to her open-mic vocal session. Monday, May 11, 7:30 p.m. The Marsh. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udf93 If you\u2019re graduating from school this spring, make a statement on the commencement stage by decorating your graduation cap \u2014 all materials provided. Tuesday, May 12, 4-6 p.m. Central Library. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \u26bd Joined by KQED morning anchor Brian Watt, Berkeley author Nick Greene presents his new book \u201cHow to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World\u2019s Game.\u201d Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway\u2019s Bookstore. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcda Davin Malasarn reads from and talks about his debut novel, \u201cThe Other Country,\u201d in conversation with Bay Area author and editor Linda Michel-Cassidy. Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m. Pegasus Books Downtown. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udef3\ufe0f Joan Bernier\u2019s one-woman show \u201cThe Captain\u201d is based on the harrowing final voyages of Captain Joseph Elz\u00e9ar Bernier (1852-1934) as he confronts the legacy of settlement and \u201ccivilization.\u201d A portion of proceeds will benefit the Qajuqturvik Community Food Center in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. The Marsh. $15-$100<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udeaa \ud83e\udde2 The Jazzschool\u2019s weekly daytime series featuring leading Bay Area jazz artists talking about topics near and dear to their hearts continues with Berkeley clarinet wizard Ben Goldberg discussing his musical hero Steve Lacy (1934-2004), who reintroduced the soprano saxophone in the 1950s, bridging traditional New Orleans polyphony with the avant garde. Wednesday, May 13, 12:30 p.m. The Jazzschool. FREE<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udeb2 Bike to Work Day has been going strong in the Bay Area since the mid-1990s, but East Bay Bike to Wherever Day<\/a> promotes cycling for any reason, not just punching the clock. Where will you be riding on Thursday, May 14?<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa8 Feeling creative and artsy? BART is looking for one artist or team to construct a mosaic or tile mural at the North Berkeley BART Station. Artists residing in the five counties served by BART, including Alameda County, are eligible to apply. Applications are due by midnight on Sunday, May 17<\/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 We know that most readers don’t get to the end of the article. But you did! To support our in-depth, rock-solid reporting, please consider making a donation to our nonprofit newsroom today. 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