August 17, 2012

Upcoming Events This Weekend:
Saturday, August 18 | 2nd Annual Berkeley Coffee & Tea Festival | Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm | $25

Saturday, August 18 | Summer Cinema on Center Street: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" | Center St. b/t Shattuck & Oxford | 7:30 pm pre-movie mania, movie at Sundown | FREE

Sunday, August 19 & Monday, August 20 | Caltopia | UC Berkeley Recreactional Sports Facility | Bancroft way b/t Dana & Ellsworth | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm | FREE

Downtown Berkeley Music Fest poster
Thursday, August 23 | 5:00 - 7:00 pm 
Downtown Berkeley BART Station Plaza | FREE

Kick up your heels at the free kick-off concert for the Downtown Berkeley Music Fest outside the Downtown Berkeley BART station on the Plaza. The toe-tapping neofolk talents of fiddler/dancer Laura Cortese launch the fun, followed by a funky-jazz set from the Mike Sweetland quartet, and definitely bring your dancing shoes, when the finest salsa strains of the Jose Roberto Band hit the stage.


 
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Thursday, August 23 - Sunday, August 26 
10 Downtown Berkeley Arts Venues | 32 performances
FREE and ticketed performances
In an event as diverse as Berkeley itself, the fifth annual Downtown Berkeley MusicFest offers up four days of musical magic to satisfy every musical craving. Enjoy a kaleidoscope of musical genres - salsa to skronk, world to blues, Jazz, Rock, R&B and Reggae - performed by national touring artists and top local talent in ten venues throughout Berkeley's vibrant arts district. Opportunities abound to get your musical groove on in every way possible-listen to it, dance to it, jam to it, but most of all, don't miss it!

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Monday, August 27 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm 
Space Lounge at the Saturn Cafe | 2175 Allston Way

Grab a free beer and an appetizer and hang out with founders and employees from Magoosh and GoOverseas. These two companies have made the Berkeley Startup Cluster their home, and both are already gaining traction and growing quickly.  Learn from their successes - And lessons learned. Meet your colleagues from other enterprises here in the neighborhood-- Get an idea or contact to solve your next business problem ...See you there!


 
Theater Events 
Wednesday, August 29 | Opening Night of Chinglish | Roda Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre | 2025 Addison St. | Showing through October 7

 

Thursday, August 30 | Opening Night of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity  | Aurora Theatre Company | 2081 Addison St. | 
Showing through September 30

 
Berkeley Startup Cluster & Literary Events
Saturday, August 18 | Dharma College Free Summer Lectures: I, Me and Mine Walked Into a Bar . . .and Other Funny Stories About Language and Self | Dharma College | 2222 Harold Way | 2:00 pm | FREE 
 
Thursday, August 30 | August mHealth Networking Event | HUB Berkeley, David Brower Center | 2170 Allston Way | 6:00 - 9:00 pm | FREE | RSVP Required
 
Tuesday, September 2 | Cindy Crabb reads from "Doris" Zines | Pegasus Bookstore | 2349 Shattuck Ave. | 7:30 pm | FREE

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