Cerebral cinema: this August, we bring you some brain-addled beauties from the silver screen. These smart-ass films won't raise your IQ, but they'll stimulate your optical receptors and, maybe, lower your brow. The headliners are The Atomic Brain, Donovan's Brain, and The Brain That Wouldn't Die, three heady achievements from Hollywood that play fast and loose with science. To front-load your frontal lobe, we start each evening with a mind-expanding mix of short films, musical stimulants, freaky performances, and hallucinatory harangues, all focused on our wit's end. What can you say: outdoors and off-the-wall. Cerebral cinema is a no-brainer.

The Second Annual Coffee and Tea Festival is a celebration of all things coffee and tea, as well as the tasty treats and desserts that compliment them. Dozens of specialty coffee, tea and dessert vendors convene to showcase their products and services and to offer this wonderful opportunity for guests to learn the varied and diverse nature of their offerings. Enjoy a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony, Coffee and Tea 2.0 Workshops, and take home a mini souvenir coffee mug. Stay for an hour or the whole morning, and learn why "Coffee and Tea" so often equal "Berkeley"!

Friday, August 24 - Tuesday, August 28 | Preview Performances of Chinglish

Roda Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre | 2025 Addison St.