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September 23, 2011
1. Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
2. 20th Annual Berkeley Video & Film Festival
3. October Events Sampling
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Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival logoWatershed Environmental Poetry Festival
Saturday, October 1, 2011
12pm-4:30pm, Civic Center Park, FREE
A free day of poetry, music, and activism, exploring the State of the Planet. Featuring poetry readings, Jazz music performance, an Open Mic, Arthur Okamura's waterflow banners, River Village literary and environmental exhibits, face painting, Ecology Center environmental presentations, and more!

 

Pre-Festival Activities include: 

Strawberry Creek Walk, Saturday, October 1, 2011, 10am, Meeting at Oxford & Center.  

Art & Activism Panel, Thursday, September 30, 7:30pm, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave.

 

 
BVFF event picture20th Annual
Berkeley Video & Film Festival
September 30, October 1 & 2, 2011
Landmark Shattuck Cinemas
General Admission: $15. Students & elders: $12

Interact with producers, directors and cinematographers at this live screening
, featuring over 50 remarkable new films and videos by Independent film and videomakers, who created works that challenge and confront our notions of "Electronic Cinema." The films range from documentaries, shorts, student films, ethnographic, animation, machinima and art films.
Tickets available at Shattuck Cinemas box office & online and tend to sell out quickly.

 

 
Comedy & Unconventional Theater Events Sampling
Sunday, October 2, The World's Funniest Bubble Show, The Marsh Berkeley, Showing October 2 - November 20

Tuesday, October 4, Comedy Improv Night, Saturn Space Lounge, 8pm

Educational & Technology Events Sampling
Tuesday, October 11, Michael Bitbol Talk on Quantum Entanglement and the Buddhist Teaching on Dependent Origination, Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages, 7-9pm, Free, Light refreshments

Wednesday, October 12, INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster Event- What Would Google Do ... With Your Public Parts?, Freight and Salvage, 1-2pm, Free


Saturday, October 15, Cirque des Sciences- Berkeley Lab's Open House, Laurence Berkeley National Lab, 10am-3pm, Free, Registration required
Music Events Sampling
Saturday, October 15, BHS Jazz Combo, Bobby G's Pizzeria, 8:30pm-11pm, Free

Friday October 21, The Jazzschool Advanced High School Jazz Workshop and the SFJAZZ All-Stars Combo, The Jazzschool, 8pm, $15 general / $10 adults with children / $5 children

Friday, October 21, 8:00 pm, First Annual Berkeley Hawaiian Music Festival, Freight and Salvage, 8pm, $34.50 advance / $36.50 at door
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