Berkeley Public Library Art & Culture Newsletter
January 2015
 
Happy New Year!

We wish you a year of great books, movies and music!

 Art & Culture Events @ Your Library
Zenith New Orleans Jazz Band @Claremont
January 8
4:00-5:00 pm
Earl Scheelar and the Zenith Jazz Band perform! This fun, high energy program will have you dancing in the stacks! All ages welcome.

Ebola in West Africa: An Unprecedented Public Health Problem @Central
Saturday, January 10
2:00-3:30pm
Professor Art Reingold of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health provides an update concerning the West African Ebola outbreak including the use of vaccines and treatment.

Recasting Family Stories: A Micro-Memoir Workshop @ Central
Saturday, January 17
2:00-4:00 pm
Explore moving memoirs, re-visit, re-see, and re-interpret the stories we've been told about who we are and where we come from with gently provocative prompts.

Book to  Film Discussions @ Claremont

To Kill a Mockingbird Book Discussion @ Claremont

Wednesday, January 21  
6:30-7:30 pm   
Mark the 55th Anniversary of Harper Lee's beloved novel with us. Celebrate To Kill a Mockingbird, best seller and critically acclaimed novel and its Academy Award-winning film adaptation.

To Kill a Mockingbird Screening @Claremont
Saturday, January 24
3:00-5:15 pm
Gregory Peck stars in this film adaption of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

What's Happening at Berkeley Rep?  X's and O's: a Football Love Story @Central
Sunday, January 25
2:00-3:00 pm
Berkeley Repertory Theatre docents discuss the world premiere of X's and O's, a Football Love Story, examining  the fascination of football and the injuries sustained by its players.

Who We Be: The Colorization of America @Central
January 31
11:00 am-12:30 pm
Jeff Chang discusses Who We Be: The Colorization of America, remixing comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Trayvon Martin into a powerful, unusual, and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress.

In This Issue
Playreaders @Central


Playreaders @ Central

Wednesdays
January 7, 14, 21, and 28 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Read aloud from great plays, changing parts frequently. January's plays are: Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, followed by F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. No auditions or registration required. All ages are welcome.

Library  Closures

All Library locations
 close at 6:00 pm
Wednesday
December 31, 2014

All Library locations are closed

Thursday
January 1, 2015


All Library locations are closed
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day
Monday
 January 19, 2015



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